Fanfic / The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds

Twilight bit her lip and sighed. "Megan…you've been to Equestria before, haven't you." She chuckled nervously and looked away. "It was your reactions to everything around you, as if you've seen them before, and they changed."

When an unlikely accident involving a teleport spell, a Sonic Rainboom and an exceedingly pissed off dragon punches a hole through space-time, the Mane Six accidentally reach into a different world. This leads them to encounter a "human" called Megan, along with her family... and eventually discover that Megan's not only been to Equestria before, but may well have played a central role in its History. And her role might not be over yet...

The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds is an ongoing crossover between My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the original G1 My Little Pony 'n Friends and a lot more besides. It interprets the new series as being set in the distant future of the original, and examines how "Dream Valley" could eventually become "Equestria". Collectively, this universe is known as "The Hasbroverse," since it contains not only MLP but every Hasbro cartoon in The '80s. The most notable entries are the original G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and The Transformers, but Dungeons & Dragons (1983), Jem and the Holograms and the Inhumanoids are also mentioned as being part of this world.

Originally posted at SpaceBattles (thread 2 found here, thread 3 found here). Can be found at Fanfiction.net and FiMFiction.

Canonical Stories of the Hasbroverse

• Day of the Broken Fang — a prequel to Savior of Worlds, detailing the fall of Cobra in the Hasbroverse.

• Bring Them Home — A raid behind Quintesson lines uncovers Autobots thought lost. Prequel to The Elements of Harmony and Savior of Worlds.

• Wreck and Ruin — On an airless moon, the war ends for nine Decepticons. Prequel/side-story to The Elements of Harmony and Savior of Worlds.

• The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds — Summary seen above.

• Side Stories of First Contact — A series of one-shots showing how Equestria's residents deal with meeting the wider Hasbroverse.

• The Conversion Bureau: United We Stand — A sequel to Savior of Worlds, where a parallel universe threatens the new peace.

• Bargains and Dragons — This is a crossover with the Dungeons and Dragons animated series from the 1980's, and is a Hasbroverse story, taking about two weeks or so after the events of United We Stand, in late 2012.

• Chaos Runs Rampant a sequel to Savior of Worlds and United We Stand, in which Discord escapes and wrecks havoc.

• Multiversal Harmony — A multi-cross fanfiction between multiple fan universes, where Elements of Harmony are pulled from their own worlds to save another. Crossover with RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse, Rainbooms and Royalty, Life in Manehattan, The Cadanceverse, and Bed Head's Flipverse.

• A side-story by GB Scientist

• Short vignette by Ed Becerra

• Coming Back and Giving Thanks — Doctor Whooves, Danielle and the Doctor's family help an old man out. Written for the sixtieth anniversary of Doctor Who

There are also two non-canon Omake threads on Space Battles, here and here.

There is also a live read from Martialartfruituser starting from chapter 1 here.

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Tropes contained in the Hasbroverse:

Day of the Broken Fang

• Anti-Climactic Unmasking: When Cobra Commander and his fellow escapees are unmasking to each other, everyone is expecting some mutated horror under the Commander's mask, but when he does so, he's just an ordinary guy with a moustache. The stories were just propaganda from Golobulus. It helps that Cobra Commander also underwent genetic and surgical reconstruction so that he'd look more human.
• Bullying a Dragon: The reason for Cobra's downfall and near-complete annihilation. See, while Cobra Commander was smart enough to realize that challenging the Decepticons was a seriously bad idea, Serpentor was... not that bright. In addition to not listening to anyone who told him that attacking the Decepticons was a bad idea, or considering that no human nation had ever successfully attacked the Decepticons without Autobot support, anyone who could have developed anti-Cybertronian weapons (and even that is a big maybe) left Cobra years ago, making any offensive actions against them suicidal. Megatron utterly annihilated Cobra in retaliation for an assault launched on his undersea base; there are only twelve confirmed survivors by the time of the story. (Cobra Commander himself, Destro and The Baroness — who had quit Cobra and got married several years before Serpentor made his stupid decision — Storm Shadow, Zarana, Zartan's daughter Zanya, half-a-dozen nameless Cobra grunts loyal enough to Cobra Commander that he took them with him when he escaped before the retaliatory strike, and dozens of former Cobra goons who either were laying low and got jobs at MARS industries, or got together years later). It's also rumored that Zartan survived, but it's unconfirmed. That attack went down in history as the Day of the Broken Fang.
• Call-Forward: One scene in this fic is Megan and Mike Richards and their one-year-old daughter Danielle, watching the news about Cobra's demise. After Mike goes to bed, Megan and her sister Molly chat about what their old friends the ponies would think about it all.
• Composite Character: Frenzy has his sonic abilities from the original toyline and comics instead of his earthquake piledriver arms from the cartoon.
• Continuity Nod: Joe Colton (as in the original G.I. Joe figure from 1964, and the namesake of the modern team) and his 1970s Adventure Team are mentioned at one point.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The entire Day of the Broken Fang, when the Decepticons annihilated Cobra with very little resistance. Only a few of COBRA's higher-ups survived, plus those who had the brains to get the hell out of dodge while they still had a chance like Cobra Commander himself.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: For a member of G.I. JOE, there are few better ways to go out in a fight - defending the West Point graduation ceremony from a Cobra remnant cell rearing its ugly head, and blasting the enemy cyborg commander to bits with an overloaded laser pistol. Yo Joe, Conrad 'Duke' Hauser.
• Evil Versus Evil: The Decepticons vs. Cobra. Decepticons win.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Cobra Commander gets news of Cobra conducting an undersea military strike in the mid-Atlantic, he wonders what they could be attacking, before paling when he works out that the only potential underwater target in the area is the Decepticons' underwater base.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Cobra Commander in this continuity is a blend of his cartoon and Marvel Comics incarnation, so here he's a former used car salesman who stumbled upon Cobra-La during a trek around the world; Golobulus created his cartoon backstory, as it would've been bad PR for him to have a human doing his dirty work.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Duke, still wounded in action from a previous mission, holds off a Cobra revival attack on West Point's graduation ceremony. Though he kills the ringleader, the cyborg Overkill, it's too much for his body to take.
• Karma Houdini: In-Universe, Cobra Commander; despite the fact he is based off of his comic incarnation (making him a lot more ruthless, effective, and deadly), he's one of the very few Cobra members who survived the Decepticon assault and is currently living comfortably in a mansion somewhere in upstate New York. Then considering ''The Transformers'' is part of this continuity, he'll come out of retirement as "Old Snake" in in 2006 and ''again'' evade justice after helping Victor Drath with his schemes.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Just as Serpentor is trying to rally Dr. Mindbender against the Decepticon's assault, Shockwave in his laser gun mode blasts through the terror-drome and vaporizes both of them.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Zarana decides that her and Zanya's best chance for surviving the Decepticon's extermination of Cobra is to run to Mainframe for help and turn herself in to G.I. Joe.
• Make an Example of Them: When Serpentor launched an offensive against the Decepticons that merely resulted in a few scratches to their base and several energon cubes destabilized (which set back Megatron's schedule), Megatron decided to respond to the audacious assault and send a message to humanity at the same time - by exterminating Cobra to a man. This is averted, though, as the biggest response that the Decepticons get is Megatron getting sent "Thank You" cards.
• Manly Tears:
  • Billy can't help but cry when he receives a video from his father, Cobra Commander, apologizing for how things turned out for their family.
  • Abound at Duke's funeral.
• Mythology Gag: Venom is the leader of the Insecticons as per his original bio.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Megatron and the Decepticons, on hearing that Cobra's attack mildly damaged one part of his ship and may have spilled some Energon, completely obliterates Cobra (save for a few scattered survivors that had either already left, fled, or went into hiding). His goal is to show the Puny Humans of Earth the price of meddling in Decepticon affairs! He's naturally shocked and annoyed when the reaction he gets is that they start sending him "Thank You" E-Cards.
  • The destruction of Cobra makes the nations of earth band together to form the EDC, which started forming alliances and eventually drove the Decepticons out of the Solar System.
• Oh, Crap!: Multiple Cobra soldiers get this when they realize that Serpentor decided to attack the Decepticons, especially Cobra Commander. Some of the guards sent to arrest him jump ship the instant they're told why he objected to Serpentor's stupid, stupid plan.
• Outside Ride: While escaping from Cobra Island's fortress, Cobra Commander brings two loyal vipers from the fortress to the docks in the flight pod he used to get there, with the two vipers hanging off the sides of the pod. Similarly, the tele-viper at the docks is so panicked when he hears that the Decepticons are on their way that he leaps onto the forward turret of the escape hydrofoil and rides it out as Cobra Commander escapes.
• Properly Paranoid: The reason Cobra Commander wants nothing to do with Cybertronians is that one fine day, a typical Cobra operation got crashed by Decepticons shooting up the place. After Soundwave and Starscream decided that the fleshling with the stupid mask would make a nifty last survivor to tell the world that mighty Megatron meant business, he issued an order that when robots in disguise showed up, Cobra troops were to drop what they were doing and run.
• Saved by Canon: Cobra Commander, given he shows up as "Old Snake" in Season 3 of The Transformers.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Serpentor ordered Cobra's attack on the Decepticons, Cobra Commander panicked, grabbed his bug-out bag and every bank book/PIN number he could find, hopped on a hydrofoil with a half-dozen loyal soldiers, and got as far away from Cobra Island as humanly possible. Hence the reason why he was one of the only members to survive the resulting massacre. It should be noted that many of the "Loyal" soldiers were loyal to Serpentor right up until they were informed of what Serpentor did, at which point they, too, had this reaction.
• Shout-Out: As Mainframe and Zarana are reconnecting, Zarana recalls a time in Budapest, to which Mainframe replies that he remembers Budapest very differently.
• Take Care of the Kids: The essence of Zartan's final call to his sister Zarana as he and his brother Zandar are about to be attacked by the Insecticons, to tell her to take care of his daughter Zanya and that he loves both of them.
• Title Drop: The Day of the Broken Fang is the name given by the media to the day Cobra was destroyed by the Decepticons.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • Serpentor, who decided that it would be a great idea to attack the Decepticons' base of operations. Cobra Commander points out how monumentally stupid this is, even stating that no nation on Earth has managed to do this successfully, or create anti-Decepticon weaponry without Autobot aid. He even explains that the members of Cobra who could do that had already left, and that the ones remaining don't have the right scientific skills. When Serpentor decides to not listen, he runs like hell, and the soldiers he convinces to come with him are some of the very few members of Cobra who survive that day, most of whom remain in hiding.
  • Cobra Commander later says the same about the cyborg Overkill trying to resurrect Cobra with woefully insufficient firepower to match the new EDC.
    Cobra Commander: I mean seriously, fifty people, some tanks and some BATs? Did his hard drive crash or something?
  • Given his reputation, Cobra Commander is an aversion. He took steps years ago to survive if he ever had to go on the run, did not deliberately antagonize the Decepticons, and once the smoke starts to clear, wipes his hands clean of Cobra once and for all. He recognizes that there's no point in trying to rebuild it with no resources, and the Decepticons actively hunting them.
• Video Wills: Billy finds himself receiving a video message from his father, Cobra Commander, telling him of the death of Cobra (not the Commander himself though; he's still alive), and $100,000 to do with as he wishes.
• Worthy Opponent: Every surviving executive of Cobra is present in the audience at Duke's funeral, all having nothing but respect to say for their JOE adversary. Destro makes clear to Cobra Commander that if he tries to start anything here, he will die.

The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds

• Abled in the Adaptation: Downplayed, Chip Chase was wheelchair-bound in his childhood, but now can walk thanks to Cybertronian technology. Further downplayed as while the tech exists, it's only recently been allowed into consumer's hands and is incredibly expensive.
• Action Mom: Megan. Twenty years have passed, she has two lovely daughters, and upon her first return trip to Equestria, she carries a rifle with the express intent to slay a dragon.
• Adaptational Badass: Both Big Macintosh and Prince Blueblood have past military experience in the Royal Tank Corps and Royal Guard respectively. They reactivate their commissions when Tirac returns.
• The Ageless: The Princess Ponies, Catrina, and Rep are still around. Catrina states that her people live longer, and Rep turns out to be a dragon all along.
• All Girls Like Ponies: Michelle. Meeting the ponies is like a dream come true for her. She eagerly accepts being part of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
• All There in the Manual: The author posts Worldbuilding and Back Story information in his blog, elaborating on things in the Hasbroverse that fans are curious about.
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: After Tirac reveals himself, he launches Shadowbolt and Ursa Major attacks on Ponyville and Canterlot.
• The Alliance: The Equestrian Alliance. It not only consists of the ponies, but also the Flutterponies, sea ponies, bees, griffins (that broke away from the Griffin Kingdoms), crabnasties, penguins, stonebacks, and several others. The Flutterponies, along with the bees, broke away for many centuries after the battle with Discord, but rejoined after Megan's return. Though it seems to run more like a Federation or a Republic.
  • The EDC is this for the nations of Earth, and contains refugees and immigrants from various races Earth has encountered. It's also allies with Starscream's Decepticon Faction, several other races, and the Autobots.
• Alpha Bitch: Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, of course. They get taken down a few pegs by Danielle and Michelle.
• Alternate Continuity: The plot diverges from canon sometime shortly after "Owl's Well That Ends Well".
• Alternate Universe: Takes place in what is known as the Hasbroverse (or Hasbro Earth), where many of the 1980's Hasbro/Sunbow/Marvel cartoons are canon (the cartoons themselves were originally linked by a parody of Geraldo Rivera named Hector Ramirez; certain other links also popped up from time to time).
• Ambiguously Gay: Caramel and Blues Noteworthy.
• Another Story for Another Time
• Arch-Enemy: Tirac is remembered by the legends and by Megan herself as her worst enemy. Naturally, he turns out to be the Big Bad.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Becoming king of the dragon clans requires, among other things, a Klingon Promotion.
• Babies Ever After: Jimmy the pizza boy is apparently the son of Destro and Baroness.
• Bad Liar: Megan can tell Applejack was lying since bearing the Element of Honesty makes her a terrible liar.
• Badass Adorable: The Bushwoolies prove to be this during Tirac's attack on Ponyville, clustering together in a giant ball of fuzz, plate armor and weaponry that literally rolls over everything in its path.
• Badass Bandolier:
  • Megan wears one on her visits to Equestria, except at the Grand Galloping Gala.
  • Big Macintosh wears one with grenades during the attack on Ponyville.
• Badass Bystander: During the attack on Ponyville, pretty much the whole town comes out to help fight back.
• Badass in Distress: Megan is abducted by Tirac's forces, and instantly goes Die Hard on them.
• Balkanize Me: It seems Ponyland actually was a united nation prior to Megan's arrival. However, twenty years earlier, Tirac killed Queen Majesty, which caused the country to collapse into various mini-states until Megan managed to reunite them.
• Beam-O-War:
  • Princess Celestia gets into one with a Tirac-summoned Ursa Major.
  • During the Final Battle, Tirac summons the Rainbow of Darkness to hold off the Elements of Harmony, and does so successfully... until Megan shoots off his hands.
• Best Friends-in-Law: It's stated that Danny and Michael are best friends, with Danny introducing Michael to Megan.
• Big Bad: After almost thirty chapters of buildup and foreshadowing, it turns out that Tirac is the one responsible for Luna's corruption into Nightmare Moon, and in the present is now plotting revenge against Megan.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • In Chapter 31, Trixie shows up just in time to save Danielle, Michelle, and the CMC from one of Tirac's Ursas.
  • Later, the Royal Guard shows up to help push the Shadowbolts out of Ponyville, saving Danny, Molly and the Princess Ponies in the process.
• Boom, Headshot!: How Luna finishes off the last of Tirac's Ursas.
• Both Sides Have a Point: During the Gala, Rarity and Blueblood confront each other on how they're acting. While Blueblood was acting like a jerk, he was taking out his frustration that Rarity is the latest in a long line of mares who just want to get with him to get access to his money or titles or access to high society, which Rarity admits to. The two separate after that.
• Bottomless Magazines: Averted with Megan, Danny, and Mike's guns. Also, unusually for a magical being fiction, averted with Twilight, the Princess Ponies, the three alicorn princesses, and the dragons, whose powers/flame require recharging after heavy use.
• Brainy Brunette: Danielle.
• Bullying a Dragon: Danielle and Michelle invoke this to get Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon to leave the CMC alone — they point out that the Princesses are their adopted sisters, and they can tell on them if they don't leave their friends alone.
• Call-Back/Continuity Nod:
  • Michelle hugs Spike the same way Fluttershy did.
  • Apple Boom shook Danielle's hand hard like Applejack with Twilight Sparkle in the same episode.
  • Rainbow Dash flew to Megan's face, demanding answers until Applejack pulled her tail. Just like with Twilight Sparkle in "Elements of Harmony".
  • Megan mentioned meeting another zebra, which was Zeb from the original series.
  • In Chapter 6, Danielle pretends to be sick by fake cough so she can stay home from school to visit Equestria. Then she elbowed Michelle to fake cough too. Just like with Twilight and Fluttershy.
• The Cavalry: The dragons, Flutterponies, the Royal Guard detachment sent to Ponyville and Catrina and Rep serve as this during the climatic battles.
• The Cavalry Arrives Late: After the Richards and Williams families, along with their government escort Minerva Yamamoto, return to Earth after successfully defeating Tirac, they find their farm and the Rainbow Bridge blockaded by a US military squadron and a couple of Autobots. Justified since they had to take time to mobilize and Minerva had no idea how to get any forces across the Rainbow Bridge without magic help, so when she informed the government, they were deployed in case Tirac's incursion succeeded and he set his sights on Earth.
• Canon Welding: Places the original MLP show in the newest one's ancient past.
  • Also puts it in the same universe as the original Transformers, G.I. Joe, Inhumanoids, the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, and Jem.
• Charged Attack: At the climactic battle against Tirac, Megan works the lever of her enchanted rifle multiple times to build up a truly devastating shot.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Shining comments that he and Cadance have known each other since before she foalsat Twilight.
• Crazy-Prepared: Megan and Mike both take weapons to the Grand Galloping Gala, just in case something happens.
• Cuteness Proximity: Megan has two daughters. Twilight is a talking pony. Megan warns her to expect this.
• Crossover Relatives:
  • Celestia and Luna are the daughters of the Princess Ponies via their magic wands. Additionally, Megan, Danny, and Molly were their honorary aunts and uncle.
  • Twilight, Firefly and G1 Applejack are the ancestors of Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, and FiM Applejack, respectively.
  • Spike is the grandson of King Spykoran, who's the grownup version of G1 Spike.
  • Michelle, the most obvious, due to wanting to comb every pony she sets her eyes on. Danielle, being the oldest and smartest, would try to hide this.
• Damsel out of Distress: When Megan is captured by a returned Tirac, she finds a way to free herself and escape with her pistols and knife.
• The Dark Times: The twenty years between Queen Majesty's death and Megan's arrival in Ponyland. After Tirac used the Rainbow of Darkness on Majesty, the kingdom fractured into countless smaller ones, which Tirek spent the next two decades picking off piecemeal. Ponyland was the last one left by the time Megan arrived.
• Dawn of an Era: The formation of Equestria.
• Deader than Dead: Seems to be the case with Tirac. He says he's already dead and the Elements dissolve him into nothing, the text implying they just destroyed his soul. Or sent back to the deepest of Tartarus.
  The Rainbow of Light enveloped Tirac, consuming his entire form. He cried out in anguish that faded into nothingness, followed quickly by his final vestiges of existence.
• Dead Guy Junior: Retroactively so; Megan gave her daughter Danielle the middle name "Wind Whistler", after her pegasus friend. Of course, when she returns to Equestria, this trope becomes applicable when Megan finds out how much time has actually passed and that the Wind Whistler she knew has long since passed on.
• Defiant to the End: Majesty, the last queen of Ponyland, when confronted by Tirac, fought him to the death, predicting his eventual defeat, with her last act to be to spit in his eye.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: When Tirac sends an Ursa Major to attack the heroes, Celestia gets into a Beam-O-War with it, but ultimately kills it. Which was what Tirac was counting on, as it left Celestia weakened.
  • The Mane Cast and Megan ultimately destroy Tirek once and for all.
• Ditzy Genius: In this fanfic, though Star Swirl is known as a very powerful wizard, he's also considered an "utter nutter" to those who knew him personally. Something that surprised Twilight Sparkle.
  Twilight: Star Swirl the Bearded, a nut?
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The ponies in Canterlot and Ponyville freaking out over The Mag'ne's return.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: When she visits the Everfree Forest for the first time, Megan needs to explain to Fluttershy what her rifle is. However, later we see that guns and firearms do exist in the military of Equestria, such as the machine gun positions that are used to fend off Shadowbolts and the tanks that both aid in the final battle and Big Macintosh's old battalion. Though she may have never seen a more personal gun.
• Eat Dirt, Cheap: As in canon, dragons devour gems as food. Here, they also can devour the gold in their Dragon Hoard to stoke their internal fire.
• Embarrassing Old Photo: Megan, Molly, and Danny have plenty of these of Luna and Celestia, since it was the three of them who raised the two.
• The Empire: The Griffin Kingdoms reformed as the Griffin Empire. Two of the kingdoms broke away before that happened and joined Equestria; Gilda and Gustav's families are both from those regions.
• End of an Age: For the humans and humanoids who left beyond the land that became Equestria, and so begins a new era for the ponies.
• Epic Flail: Big Mac wields what is effectively a wrecking ball attached to his tail against Tirac's Shadowbolt army.
• The Fair Folk: The Flutterponies has a few traits of this. Despite their friendship with the other ponies, they mostly like to be kept by themselves. But eventually decide to join the Equestrian Alliance. Only due to the trauma they suffered from Discord (especially Morning Glory), did Queen Rosedust sever their ties from the Alliance and remained in Flutter Valley. After Megan's return and Morning Glory cured, the Flutterponies rejoin the Alliance.
• Famous Ancestor: See Related in the Adaptation below.
• Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either: In the prologue, taking place right before the first episode, Twilight Sparkle (a unicorn) read about the Mag'ne, and finds the description of a human unbelievable.
• Fantastic Racism: Spykoran's hatred of the Ursas borders on this, though it's justified by them having apparently killed his family all except for his grandson's (Spike) egg in a previous raid on dragon lands.
  • Before the Equestrian Alliance was formed, the Unicorns, Pegasus ponies, and Earth ponies weren't very friendly with each other. It's also implied that the Sky Clans looked down on those Pegasus ponies who were raised on the ground, like Firefly. The same could be said about the Mages of the Rocks looking down on the unicorns growing up with the Earth and Pegasus ponies.
• Feeling Their Age: As the now-40-year-old Megan is running up the stairs of the castle in the Everfree to her final confrontation with Tirac, she has to stop and catch her breath, muttering that she's too old for this. It contrasts with a scene at the beginning of the story, where before she even meets any ponies again, she does a trick with her spatula and comments "Still Got It".
• Field Promotion: When Blueblood reactivates his Royal Guard commission in order to help defend Canterlot from Tirac, General Spanish Steel promotes him from First Lieutenant to Captain on the spot to help coordinate things with Shining Armor.
• Final Battle: Beginning in chapter 29, when Tirac reveals himself, and concluding in chapter 36 when the Mane Six and Megan face him down in the throne room of the Castle of the Two Sisters.
• First Contact: Technically not the first, but there are hints that Equestria and Earth are headed this way. Though in Earth's case, they already had a first contact of a different kind...
  • First contact finally happens in chapter 21.
  • Chapter one of Side Stories of First Contact has the first meeting between the Princesses, Twilight Sparkle, and Optimus Prime.
  • After the final battle is done, one of the governmental characters points out that with all the space exploration going on, there's a new First Contact every few weeks. What makes it different with the Ponies is that A) it's not First Contact between humanity and ponies, and B) most contacts are made in deep space or over a planet. Equestria has a wormhole that leads directly into the middle of Kentucky.
  • Apparently, Aliens are so little a deal in the Hasbroverse Earth that they're barely worth mentioning. Danny casually mentions offhand that he has two Nebulon Refugees as students.
• Foreshadowing: There were repeated references to Tirac throughout the story. Guess who turns out to be the Big Bad.
• Forgotten First Meeting: Megan and Mike actually met when they were around 6, when she saved him from bullies. When Danny introduced him to Megan, it all came back to him.
• Former Teen Rebel: Danny reveals in an embarrassing photo album that Celestia had a Goth phase as a filly, black hair dye, fishnets, makeup and all. (It's also revealed, but only to the audience, that Celestia still listens to The Cure in private.)
  Danny: I'm your adoptive uncle. It's my job to embarrass you.
• Full-Name Ultimatum: Megan does this with Danielle when she decides to live with Twilight Sparkle. We learn her middle name is "Wind Whistler".
• Generation Xerox: Not identical, but Megan is nevertheless stunned by Spike and Applejack resembling the Spike and Applejack she met in Dream Valley. Both cases are justified — Applejack is the descendant of the original, and Spike is G1 Spike's grandson.
• God's Hands Are Tied: While she doesn't explain why, Granny Bonnie tells the Williams that she "could not be there" when the ponies needed her.
• God Is Good: Granny Bonnie.
• Godzilla Threshold: The Equestrian military's reference to an extreme emergency is Code: Tirac like Tirac himself coming back to life.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: After Tirac reveals himself and kidnaps Megan, Celestia not only mobilizes the Elements of Harmony and the military, but summons help from Spykoran, Queen Rosedust, and the Princess Ponies.
  • While they don't get the initial call, Catrina and Reb hear about the situation while visiting the dragons, and join in.
• Grand Theft Me: Tirac plans to do this to Megan in order to revive himself, and keep her aware enough to watch him destroy all she cares about.
• Great Offscreen War:
  • In this universe, Celestia's battle with Nightmare Moon expanded into a war which lasted a year, known as the Nightmare War.
  • Hasbroverse Earth has had its fair share of great wars, what with Cobra, the Decepticons and the Inhumanoids raising all sorts of mayhem worldwide. A recurring one is the Last Push, where the Earth Defense Command and the Autobots finally managed to oust the Decepticons from Earth.
• Handicapped Badass: Danny is paraplegic. That doesn't stop him from raising hell with a shotgun in defense of Ponyville.
• Hand Wave: Twilight never telling her friends about Shining Armor is passed off as it simply never coming up in conversation. It's somewhat more justified that Twilight Sparkle, for all she's learned about friendship, still kinda stinks at social situations (which she proves by immediately checking a checklist she made about friendship milestones after she introduced said friends to said brother).
• Happily Married: Megan and her husband Mike.
• Heel Realization: Trixie had one in a flashback — after she was run out of town following the Ursa Minor incident, she initially swore revenge on Twilight for upstaging her. She then caught a reflection of herself in a puddle and saw how twisted by anger she was. This scared her straight.
• Heroic Bystander: Mike Richards was this during high school, as he would help people to safety during Decepticon and COBRA attacks.
• Heroic Sacrifice: The reason why Danny is in a wheelchair. Back when they were raising Celestia and Luna as foals, Danny saved Luna from a falling tree branch. The branch impaled him in the back, making him paraplegic from the waist down.
• Here There Were Dragons: Celestia tells Megan that the humans and humanoids (like the Moochick) had left centuries ago beyond the Equestrian borders.
• Hidden Depths: Apparently the reason Prince Blueblood is a jerkass is because a lot of mares he flirted courted seemed to only care about his royal connection and his wealth rather than himself. He also was once a high-ranked member of the Royal Guard, but quit rather than take over because he saw the group as hopeless. This experience comes in handy when planning Canterlot's defenses during Tirac's attack.
• Historical Hero Upgrade: In-universe example. In the original show, Megan was The Hero. Fifteen centuries of myths have spun her into the "Mag'ne", a quasi-divine figure. Likewise, her siblings Danny and Molly became the lesser-known but equally-revered figures of the "Dannile" and the "Mollye".
  • In a lesser case, "Kentucky" becomes "Key'tuck", the equivalent of heaven for ponies.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen:
  • The Decepticons have splintered into two sub-factions and are no longer the great threat to the Autobots and Earth that they once were. The faction led by Galvatron still wages war from his home base, but his men are running out of Energon and morale, and all his former war cunning is disappearing under frustration and madness. The other faction, led by Starscream and containing the more "rational" Decepticons, is in the process of negotiating a ceasefire with the Autobots that seeks autonomy while recognizing that the Decepticons have lost the Great War. By the time of "United We Stand," they've signed the treaty and are fighting alongside the EDC and Autobots.
  • Cobra was once a group that required Cold War-era Russia and the United States to team up their forces to defeat, with devious schemes and diabolical science. Then they decided to attack the Decepticons because Serpentor was an idiot. In a single day, the only remnants of Cobra were those under the protection of other factions, or went into hiding immediately.
• Human Popsicle: In this fic's 'verse, Princess Platinum, Commander Hurricane, and Chancellor Puddinghead did not un-thaw and are still bound in ice. And alive.
• I Have Many Names: Besides the "Mag'ne", Megan is also known as the "Giver of Gifts", "Defender of the Stable", "Guiding Light", "Wielder of the Spear of Fire", and "Teacher of Knowledge".
• I Need a Freaking Drink:
  • After Rarity parts ways with Prince Blueblood at the Gala, Applejack offers her a flask.
  • When Tirac's forces attack Ponyville, Mayor Mare responds by getting smashed, leaving Twilight to handle organizing a response from the citizens.
• Identical Grandson: In Chapter 25, Big Mac notes how the G1 Applejack resembles his sister.
• Informed Ability: Megan Richards is described as a successful author. Then we get a brief look at My Little Horsey in chapter 17.
  • Specifically, we're shown the first paragraph or so, and it is a fairly accurate depiction of books written with young children in mind, and Megan does outright say that My Little Horsey is a series of children's books. Books that target audiences that young, however, are rarely bestsellers, a status that Megan also claims the series holds. This is not necessarily a contradiction; her books could well be a bestselling children's series rather than a general bestselling series, but it still could have been expressed better.
• Innocently Insensitive: During a talk with Molly, Princess Cadance says how she wishes she could live in Ponyland and Dream Valley back in the old days. Molly thinks back about the Smooze and replies that she wouldn't.
• Interservice Rivalry: Big Macintosh, a retired member of the Royal Tank Corps, doesn't think very highly of the Royal Guard. Surprisingly, Shining Armor agrees, and says he was appointed Captain of the Guard specifically to whip them back into shape. Blueblood agrees with these opinions as well- he was supposed to be the one to whip them in shape, but saw it as trying to bail out a sinking ship and quit.
• Intrigued by Humanity: Lyra to Megan, obviously.
  • Inverted with Danielle, who's very intrigued by how the ponies could found a thriving civilization.
• I Should Write a Book About This: This is exactly what Megan did after her adventures in Equestria were over and she grew up; the "My Little Horsey" series is a popular children's book series on Earth, and her daughters are avid followers.
• It's All My Fault: Luna blames herself for getting Danny paralyzed and for the creation of the Everfree Forest.
• Journey to the Center of the Mind: Megan and Morning Glory's family perform this on her with Twilight's help.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: Several of the Hasbro series heroes were children when their adventures began, and their lives have gone on since.
  • The Williams siblings, heroes, caretakers and founders of Equestria when they were just mere pre-teens, have gone on with their lives after their pony adventures came to an end. Molly became a veterinarian, Danny became a teacher, and Megan became an author, works part-time at her ranch, and started a family.
  • Spike Witwicky wasn't old enough to drive when he met the Autobots; now he's Earth's ambassador to Cybertron. Similarly, the wheelchair-bound Chip Chase is now chief scientific advisor to President Abernathy.
  • The kids from Dungeons & Dragons (1983) appear a few times in sequels and side stories, none the worse for wear. Most prominently, Albert "Presto" Preston works at the White House as President Abernathy's magical expert, and appears several times in United We Stand. Eric now runs a company named Aegis Security, Bobby joined the Marine Corps (and gained about 100 pounds of muscle in the process), Diana's a gold medal gymnast, and Hank and Sheila got married. Oh, and they still have their magic weapons.
• Klingon Promotion: How one becomes king of the dragons. One must also give up one's hoard, however, resulting in more selflessness than this trope usually involves.
• Kneel Before Frodo: At the end, Granny Bonnie and Faust the Scribe bow to Megan, Molly, and Danny for everything they've done for ponies.
• Lampshade Hanging: Megan pointing out the Incredibly Lame Puns in some of the library books.
  Megan: 'A Tail of Two Fillies'? Have you no shame?
  Twilight: What?
  Megan: Oh, come on! That's one of the worst puns I've ever heard! Well, maybe not the worst, but down there.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Twilight Sparkle tries to come up with a plan of attack before facing Tirac. Rainbow Dash just kicks down the door instead.
• Legend Fades to Myth:
  • The exploits of Megan, Danny, and Molly eventually become part of Equestria's mythology. According to Spellion, contemporary to Star Swirl the Bearded, this was necessary so that Megan's accomplishments wouldn't overshadow everything that the ponies sought to build. The Ponies needed to grow on their own and make their own choices instead of just going "What would Megan do?"
    Princess Luna: The turn of the wheel, the ticking of the clock as future becomes present, present past and past legend and myth.
  • When Megan tries to call the princesses out on how they could let her be so distorted in people's eyes, they fire back that "George Washington threw a silver coin over the Delaware," probably didn't happen either, and that was just two hundred years ago.
• Magitek: Megan's rifle is upgraded with magical runes by Celestia and Luna to fire lasers.
• The Maker: Granny Bonnie, the Creator.
• The Masquerade: Quickly defied. Megan briefly panics when she realizes Equestria's radio stations are unwittingly broadcasting through the portal, but Twilight doesn't really see the problem with mankind discovering the ponies' existence. The U.S. government's main concern, once they become aware of the Rainbow Bridge in Megan's backyard, is for official First Contact go off with as few hitches as possible, not to mention making sure that the newly created hole in the fabric of space-time isn't going to explode or consume the world. It helps that the Hasbroverse's masquerade was destroyed decades ago, when the Autobots and Decepticons woke up in the wake of Mount St. Hillary's eruption.
• Memorial Statue: In the grounds of Canterlot, there are a few memorial statues commemorating the ponies of Paradise Estate and Dream Valley. Megan, Danny and Molly go there to pay their respects once they hear that their friends have long since passed.
• Mind Rape: During his original rampage, Discord performed a particularly brutal one on Morning Glory that left her almost completely unresponsive to those around her. Due to Rosedust isolating the Flutter Ponies after what happened, she's been that way for thirteen centuries. Fortunately, with Twilight Sparkle's help, Megan, Sparkling Dawn (Morning Glory's husband), and Blazing Day (her son), were able to break her out of it.
• Mooks: The Shadowbolts serve Tirac.
• Mundane Object Amazement: Upon visiting Megan's home, Twilight Sparkle is utterly impressed with some of the human inventions like computers and microwaves.
• My Greatest Failure: Celestia being forced to banish Nightmare Moon. She felt that she should have tried harder to helping her come to her senses, believing that Megan would have.
  • Luna views her fall to darkness as hers, and is terrified of telling her human friends about it.
• Mythology Gag:
  • In chapter 19, two agents discuss how Admiral Hector Delgado (better known as "Shipwreck" from G.I. Joe) claimed to have seen a Pegasus, a nod to a never-animated scene from My Little Pony: The Movie.
  • Pinkie Pie keeps horseshoes hidden around Equestria in case of horseshoe emergencies.
  • Minerva's last name is Yamamoto, the same as her Japanese voice actress Yuriko Yamamoto.
  • Flash Sentry mentions "a minotaur doing a self-help seminar...".
  • Like in Renegades and the live-action movies, Destro's real name is just Laird James McCullen XXIV. With "Destro" only being his moniker during his Cobra days.
  • Roadblock's series of cooking videos is titled "Cooking with Kung-Fu Grip".
  • "I am Wreck-Gar, and I dare to be stupid!"
  • Like it was originally intended in G.I. Joe: The Movie, Duke gets Killed Off for Real. Not, however, by Serpentor, but at a much later date... though his injury had a hand in it.
  • As a kid, Alexis Thi Dang has always said she wanted to be president. Well, being Vice-President to President Abernathy isn't half bad.
  • G1 Applejack was indeed a "silly pony" as she was depicted in the U.K. comics.
• Named by the Adaptation: The G1 Twilight's full name was Twilight Wish.
• Narnia Time: For Megan and her siblings, it's been about two decades since the events of the old show. For Celestia, Luna, and any G1 character who's still alive, it's been around fifteen centuries. When the Rainbow Bridge is reconnected to Earth, the time difference between the two worlds vanishes, synchronizing both worlds to the same timescale again.
• Neck Snap: Spykoran kills an Ursa this way during the fighting in Canterlot.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Megan and the original G1 ponies. She finally gets her chance at the end of Chapter 36.
• Never Mess with Granny: Catrina appears helping in the final battle against Tirac, and although her fur has long gone white, her spellcraft more than makes up for it.
  Catrina: I may have lost a life or two, but I haven't lived this long without making sure my claws are sharp. I don't always land on my feet these days. But with the tricks I've learned? I don't even have to jump anymore.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Like in the Pony POV Series, Discord destroyed the Rainbow of Light when Celestia and Luna attempted to use it on him, forcing them to convert its remains into the Elements of Harmony and resulting in Discord's first imprisonment.
  • To a lesser extent, the rogue dragon in the Everfree Forest. Had he listened to reason and negotiated with Twilight and Spike instead of incinerating their balloon, Rainbow Dash wouldn't have created a sonic rainboom, Rainbow Bridge would never have been rebuilt, and Equestria would have been sitting ducks when Tirac returned.
• No Hero to His Valet: Princesses Celestia and Luna may be the revered diarchy to all of ponykind, but to Megan, Danny and Molly, they would always be the two young foals that they helped raise from foalhood onwards, having witnessed everything from baby feeding, to child dress-up, to Celestia's Goth phase.
• Noodle Incident: Megan apparently once punched Stephenie Meyer during an interview. (Though to hear Megan tell it, Meyer did swing first.)
  • In the epilogue, Danielle mentioned that her dad stopped some "psycho" in his high school during the '80s. This is later revealed to have been Sunset Shimmer.
• No Indoor Voice: Princess Luna's traditional royal Canterlot voice is in full effect. Luckily, she tends to only use it to get ponies' attention and to announce things to groups of ponies. Otherwise, she speaks using her normal voice. She will, however, switch between the two without warning, which catches ponies and humans alike off guard.
  • Also, the full-sized dragons… which is understandable, seeing as how they are utterly massive. The one seen in the Everfree Forest when Spike ran away? Only came up to King Spykoran's chest.
• No-Sell: King Spykoran of the Dragons is completely unfazed by Fluttershy's Stare. Leads to Fluttershy fainting for some reason.
• One-Steve Limit: Subverted.
  • Because the Hasbroverse mashes multiple franchises together, we have G4 MLP Spike the dragon, a mention of Spike from G1 Transformers, and G1 MLP Spike as King Spykoran the Old. Also, G4 Applejack is said to be a direct descendent of G1 Applejack.
  • Also subverted with Wreck-Gar and his son (sometimes called Junior). Danielle pointed out, as with ponies, Transformers having the same names is rare.
• Only Sane Man: Danielle tries desperately to be one only sane one of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. She could easily get along with the other sane person (or pony) Twilight Sparkle.
• Original Character:
  • Megan's husband Mike Richards, and their daughters Danielle and Michelle.
  • Spellion, who's the Straight Stallion to Star Swirl.
  • Jormun the Red, who desires to take Spykoran's place as King of the Dragon Clans.
• Parental Substitute: Megan and her siblings, to Celestia and Luna (having raised them as fillies at the behest of the Princess Ponies).
• Passing the Torch: After Danielle makes her case to effectively take a GAP year in Equestria before university, Megan passes her daughter her now-enchanted Marlin lever-action rifle.
• Patchwork Fic: Blends the original My Little Pony with Friendship is Magic. Also, while Cobra-La exists, Cobra Commander's origin is that of his counterpart in Marvel's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, which is a human who used to be a used car salesman.
  • The Doctor from Doctor Who shows up because of a U.K. Marvel character who travelled between their Doctor Who comics and Marvel comics.
  • Frenzy is depicted with his sonic powers from the toyline and Marvel comics and the Insecticons are the original three and the Deluxe Insecticons with Venom being the leader like he was stated to be in his bio.
• Point of Divergence: The involvement of Megan and her family means that the Grand Galloping Gala ends up going a lot better for the Mane Six. The only ones who don't fulfill their fantasies are Rarity and Rainbow Dash, and even then, Rarity and Blueblood part ways more amiably, while Rainbow Dash manages to have fun with Spike.
• Present Company Excluded: After Twilight Sparkle ran out of the library^note to tell her friends that Megan is the Mag'ne, Megan asked Spike what's up with her:
  Spike shrugged. "Mares. Who can figure 'em?" He suddenly blushed through his scales as he felt Megan's glare. "Present company excepted, of course."
• Princesses Rule: Celestia and Luna say that the reason they're princesses instead of queens is because princesses are closer to their people than queens. Though Celestia later admits that in reality, they view themselves as regents holding the throne until Queen Majesty's true heir eventual comes forth. It's implied Twilight may be the one they're waiting on, but there's been no confirmation on that one way or another yet.
• Real Men Wear Pink:
  • Big Mac doesn't hesitate to call the Bushwoolies adorable.
  • Marvin "Roadblock" Hinton is a big fan of Megan's "My Little Horsey" series.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Surprisingly, this fic has perhaps some of the most rational, patient and friendly leaders of My Little Pony fanfics on both the pony and human sides. President Abernathy is more about peaceful contact than xenophobia, and even offers to fairly purchase land from Megan to build a new embassy and spacebridge for contact with Equestria. Celestia and Luna are the kind stewards of canon with little in the way of manipulating tendencies. Even the king of the dragons Spykoran is on good and fair terms with the other rulers. So is the Premier of Russia, Ivan Brekhov.
• Reforged Blade: After Discord destroyed the Rainbow of Light, its remains were reforged into the Elements of Harmony.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Caramel is part of the Apple family. He's a cousin of Big Mac, Applejack and Apple Bloom.
  • Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack are the descendants of the G1 ponies Twilight, Firefly, and Applejack respectively.
  • And of course Spike is the grandson of G1 Spike, now called Spykoran the Old.
• Retro Universe: Hasbro Earth has the same history as the real world. Though it also includes interstellar travel and alien contact, which follows the continuity of The Transformers cartoon.
• The Reveal: Chapter 28. Tirac is alive, and plotting revenge against Megan.
• Rhymes on a Dime: Zecora, of course. When Megan questions it, she explains that it's part of her training in the mystical arts (specifically, it helps her remember the difficult parts).
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Applejack goes on one when she thinks the green dragon has murdered Twilight, Spike, and Rainbow Dash. Thankfully she is stopped — by Stephen Magnet, of all people — before she gets herself killed.
• Rousing Speech:
  • Blueblood gives one to the Royal Guard while preparing for Tirac's attack on Canterlot.
    "That is my ancestral home. I can trace my lineage all the way back to the original founders, mere weeks before King Invincible I founded the Ancient Kingdom of Ponyland. In all that time, through griffin invasions, Tirac killing Majesty, the dissolution of Ponyland, Discord and Nightmare Moon, the city has never fallen. And upon my horn, it will not fall to Tirac on this day! You are the Royal Guard, reborn and ready to do your duty in defense of this city and of Equestria! Stand proud and tall, ponies!"
  • Shining Armor gives a briefer one to his troops when arriving in Ponyville to fight off Tirac's forces.
• Rummage Sale Reject: Rarity gives a friendly criticism on Megan's clothing on her return visit to Equestria. "The clothes are nice for off the rack. But really, Megan, wouldn't you want something with a bit more pizzazz? A bit more glamor, a bit more in the way of haute couture?" While Rainbow Dash says she'd fit right in at Applaloosa.
• Sacred Scripture: The Prophecies of the Moochick.
• Secret-Keeper: Celestia is the only one who knows Spike is the grandson of Spykoran, who prefers to keep it that way. At least for the time being.
• Self-Deprecation: Cadence and Shining Armor joke about waiting until the week of the wedding to tell Twilight. Doubles as a Mythology Gag, as that exact thing happened in canon.
• Sergeant Rock: Big Macintosh's rank back when he served in the military.
• She Is the King: According to Word of God, the ruler of the Dragon Clans is always called King, even if it's a female. So don't try to call her Queen.
• Shipper on Deck: Mike (Megan's husband) and Applejack are trying to hook up Big Macintosh and Fluttershy. AJ claims she's actually been trying to do this for a while, but has been hampered by Fluttershy's shyness and Big Mac not feeling that he's good enough for her.
  • Granny Smith gets in on the action in chapter 24, while also commenting that AJ and Mike were laying it on too thick.
  • Big Mac appears to be this for Caramel and Blues. At least Big Mac teases Caramel about it by mentioning Blues.
  • Probably Megan for Danielle and Jimmy, to her husband's chagrin.
• Shout-Out:
  • Princess Luna becoming Nightmare Moon (flashback): "I am a princess! As written in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, all shall love me and despair!"
    • Everyone in Equestria were about to bow to Megan, Molly, and Danny the same way everyone bows to the Hobbits in The Return of the King. But Megan will have none of that.
  • It seems that Megan used to show young Celestia and Luna old episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
  • Too scared to face Tirac, Fluttershy asked to be "[talked] out of it!".
  • The unnamed Middle-Eastern country that Prince Jumal rules in "Aerial Assault" is given the name Azadistan.
• Shrouded in Myth: Megan became, in Pony Mythology, the messianic Mag'ne, her siblings Danny and Molly became the Dannile and Mollye, her home of Kentucky became the afterlife Key'Tuck, and we humans became the divine Herd.
• Something We Forgot: After an enormous party to welcome Megan and her family back to Equestria, where Megan met many old friends from Queen Rosedust and the Princess Ponies to King Spykoran, Celestia realises she forgot to introduce a new friend: her niece Princess Cadance and her fiancé Shining Armor.
• Spiteful Spit: Queen Majesty's final act before Tirac killed her many centuries ago.
• Spit Take:
  • Celestia's reaction to receiving Twilight's letter about Megan. Luna has almost the exact same reaction.
  • Also Twilight's reaction to finding out about Shining Armor and Cadence's engagement.
• Spotting the Thread: While there were little hints here and there, Megan, Molly, and Danny's biggest clue that it's been more than 20 years in Equestria is when they go flying over the countryside and see the cities- they're far too big and prosperous to have been built in two decades. There weren't even enough ponies to attempt something like that when they left.
• Start of Darkness: When Luna is explaining her transformation into Nightmare Moon, we get a flashback showing how it happened — a mysterious entity (Tirac) played off of her sorrow over none enjoying her night, turning it into envy and anger at Celestia, at which point she transformed.
• The Stations of the Canon: Discussed in a blog posting. The author says the story will be trying to avoid these and be as original as possible.
• Stay with the Aliens: At the end of the story, Danielle decides to defer her University of Kentucky scholarship for a year and live in Equestria for a while, studying pony culture. It helps that she was planning on majoring in anthropology.
• Stop Worshipping Me: Megan and Mike are quite uncomfortable the way some ponies bow in their presence.
• Suddenly Speaking:
  • Big Mac. Justified, since he talked in "Applebuck Season" pre-Flanderization.
  • Junkions don't talk TV all the time.
• Take That!: Michelle's initial eagerness towards Twilight and her hair could be a Take That at the toy line whose main selling point was being able to brush their hair.
  • And when Michelle ends up going overboard with the hair decorations:
    Megan: Michelle, Twilight is not a toy.
• Tall Tale: "She commanded Mount Eohippus itself to turn into Canterlot!"
  Megan: You have got to be kidding me on that last one! I told a mountain to reshape itself? What do they take me for?
• Tempting Fate: Celestia before meeting Megan again says she's not to be disturbed, "Unless Tirac comes back, Discord breaks free and the two join forces." Guess who comes back a few days later? Now we just have to see if Discord gets free and the two team up. Megan's family is also very wise about this, trying to keep those words from circulating.
• The Theme Park Version: Molly uses these exact words to sum up the situation when she learns about how Megan became Shrouded in Myth over time.
• This Is Reality: Played with, considering that it's the Hasbroverse.
  Chip Chase: I still get the shivers thinking about my first encounter with a Decepticon... There's nothing like a laser-spewing condor strafing your car to really wake you up to the real world.
• Title Drop: "You have built Equestria with your hooves and mouths! Stand up, my little ponies!"
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • He was already showing signs of this in the original show, but G1 Spike a.k.a. King Spykoran the Old has apparently come a long way indeed.
  • Some of the Bushwoolies became the Princess Ponies' honor guards.
• A True Story in My Universe: Megan wrote the My Little Horsey children's books, which unknown to the public were based on true events. The part about Tirac apparently gave her own children nightmares.
• Twitchy Eye:
  • Rarity has a brief one when Megan says that she was in attendance at the original Grand Galloping Gala.
  • Twilight Sparkle, when Star-Swirl the Bearded was referred to as a "nut".
• Undisclosed Funds: It's not said exactly how much money Minerva Yamamoto and the U.S. Government offered to Megan and Mike to buy their land and turn it into an embassy to Equestria, but given the happy dance the Richards do after they see it, it's substantial.
• Unexplained Accent: In Martialartfruituser's live read, Megan, Danny, Molly and the G1 Applejack were given Southern accents, which they never had in the original cartoon. Speaking in a similar dialect as the Apple family. Mike, Danielle and Michelle were given the accent as well. Likely justified as the humans live in Kentucky. Martialartfruituser was inspired by this fanart, and has an accent himself. The accent compliments Megan's usual cowgirl attire.
• Weirdness Coupon: Mankind takes the idea of inter-dimensional talking technicolor ponies surprisingly well. Then again, as Mike points out, "Stranger things have happened" in the Hasbroverse.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Blueblood calls Rarity out on only coming to the Gala in order to marry into nobility. Though she at least also gets him back by pointing out that he should have just ignored her if he had no intention of properly courting her instead of leading her on. Both concede the other has a point and amiably part ways.
• Year Inside, Hour Outside: Megan's spent twenty years on Earth. When she returns to Equestria, it's been fifteen centuries from the ponies' perspective.^note The actual ratio between Equestria:Earth time after the Rainbow Bridge was severed was roughly 75:1.
  • Later corrected: now that Earth and Equestria are connected again by the Rainbow Bridge, time moves at the same rate on both ends.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Cadence doubts that she's powerful enough to hold up a shield protecting Canterlot from Tirac's forces, Fancy Pants encourages her, saying that The Power of Love gives her all the strength she needs. It works.
• You Remind Me of X: When Megan first meets Applejack, she gets a little choked up when remembering her identically-named old G1 friend all those years ago.
• You Shall Not Pass!: The Princess Ponies declare this to Tirac's forces during the attack on Ponyville, and prove more than capable of pulling it off.
• Zerg Rush: Tirac's forces lack any true strategy while attacking Ponyville and Canterlot, relying on numbers and brute force.

The Conversion Bureau: United We Stand

• Absolute Xenophobe: TCB!Celestia is in fine form, and seems to be of the opinion that anything not pony needs to be pony, even beings that were native to Equestria. Just ask TCB!Spike, who's been turned into one.
  • Chapter 19 reveals that it wasn't just Spike who had this happen to them; for all intents and purposes, the TCB Griffins are extinct, converted by Equestria into Newfoals... with the implication that the same is true of all other non-equine life.
• All for Nothing: The prophecy that TCB!Discord gave Celestia was absolutely false. Every single thing she did in order to "protect" her Equestria, from converting every sentient race she came across, to declaring war on alternate universes, to brainwashing her sister and niece... was done on the basis of a lie.
• All Your Powers Combined: The Elements of Harmony, augmented by Megan's new alicorn powers, reproduces the Rainbow of Light and conducts it through the Matrix of Leadership wielded by Optimus Prime, and the resulting blast is more than enough to put Queen Celestia down for the count.
  • Megan, when ponified, gets turned into a combination of all pony races, not just the three main ones. It's been nicknamed "Omnicorn."
• Alien Arts Are Appreciated: For the most part, harshly averted. TCB Ponies show instinctive disgust for anything related to humans or technology. Played straight with one of Shining Armor's unicorns, as when Jazz levels a sonic assault against Shining and his forces and blasts them with rock music, all of them fall to the ground in pain... save one, who starts headbanging and calling it awesome.
• America Saves the Day: Averted by the author's own admission (as he personally hates this trope). The EDC is made of multinational forces, though given that the Rainbow Bridge (and thus, the Barrier) is in Kentucky, the American Government is given more time in the spotlight than other allied governments. Personal time is spent among French and Canadian forces.
• And I Must Scream: The epilogue reveals that Queen Celestia is locked in the dungeons of RB Canterlot, her godly power stripped from her, her horn and wings reduced to nothing, and even her cutie mark is a shadow of its former glory... and then RB!Discord shows up, mocks how he got out a week ago, and is going to wreck havoc once again. No one believes Queen Celestia when she starts screaming this.
• Ascended Extra: One defender of Autobot City is Chief Master Sergeant Zoe Wiedler of the Earth Defense Command. She first made her appearance in the prequel Day of the Broken Fang as the new identity of ex-Cobra member Zanya, daughter of Zartan.
• Ax-Crazy: One of the reasons that Starscream's faction of Decepticons is welcomed is that they take in defectors from Galvatron's faction, who don't want to follow the increasingly mad orders of their leader.
• Batman Gambit: It's implied that the TCB!Discord did this when he gave the prophecy to Queen Celestia- or rather, the bogus prophecy, which led her down increasingly tyrannical paths to defeat this "Megan," who was her greatest threat. Seeing how she was already a Knight Templar, Discord knew that it would lead Celestia to seek out either Megan and her allies, or someone who would absolutely be capable of putting her down. And to quote him when she called him out on his prophecy, she fell for it.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: To free herself from her Pony form and Queen Celestia's brainwashing, Megan undergoes this.
• Badass Boast:
  • President Abernathy, during his first parley with Queen Celestia, does not back down from her threats one bit and states that she is hardly the first despotic threat that humanity has faced and triumphed over.
    President Abernathy: Humanity's dealt with power-mad dictators, interstellar tyrants, ancient civilizations trying to 'reclaim' what they lost and even abominations that claimed to be gods. And that's just been the past four decades. Trust me on this, we will not back down from you or from your threats.
  • When confronted by TCB!Queen Celestia, Granny Bonnie has this to say.
    Granny Bonnie: Normally I like to think of myself as rather humble, not one to put on airs or brag. In your case, however? I held council with the One when he created Primus and Unicron. I shook my head in sadness as Unicron fell to corruption, and helped prepare Primus' children to stop him. When the Chronarcitect needed to correct the flow of time, he consulted my watch. I molded planets, stars, and galaxies and sent them spinning into the void. I started the Heart of Ponyland pumping, breathed the fire of life onto Equus. Metlar and his ilk are squabbling children to me. Discord and Tirac are annoying at the worst of times. Celestia, Luna, Cadance, the real ones are growing and maturing quite nicely, though they still have much to learn. As for you? I feel sorrow for you, that you've strayed so far from the path. I wish circumstances could have been different, yet here we are.
• Battle Couple: Optimus Prime and Elita-1.
• Behemoth Battle: The Shattered Glass Autobots lay siege to Autobot City with Omega Doom, and Metroplex is deployed to face him. And then Omega Supreme gets in on the action.
• Big Damn Heroes: When President Abernathy decides to declare General Plan 24 (Orbital Bombardment) of the Neo-Equestrian barrier, only three of the Enterprise-class space battleships are in orbit to carry it out. Once they get the news, the other twelve Enterprise-class battleships of the EDC Navy take the fastest transwarp to Earth to assist. As later shown, it takes all fifteen Energon beams to just break the barrier.
  • After the connection to the Rainbow Bridge world is broken, the Shattered Glass Decepticons start sending aid and relief supplies to TCB Equestria.
• Big Good: Granny Bonnie, the creator of the My Little Pony universe and contemporary to The One, maker of the Transformers universe. She's named after the real-life creator of My Little Pony, Bonnie Zacherle.
• Big Red Button: Lampshaded on the bridge of the Cool Starship Enterprise when Captain Jack Burns wonders why the control to initiate Order 24 (Energon cannon Orbital Bombardment) is this. His first officer chalks it up to EDC people being tremendous sci-fi geeks.
• Bittersweet Ending: While the forces of Hasbroverse Earth win, the Barrier completely obliterated Megan's house, and the area was subjected to Orbital Bombardment (as well as normal artillery strikes and warfare). Though the Richards were planning on moving anyway as their land was to be turned into the new Equestrian embassy, even if things return to semi-normal, an entire Kentucky neighbourhood has literally been wiped off the map, and many people weren't as lucky as the Richards were.
  • And things are even worse on the Neo-Equestrian side. The Famine that is sweeping their world is still prevalent, but as Perceptor, Chip Chase and Dr. Whooves discover, Queen Celestia's breaching of the dimensional barrier has destabilised it, meaning that unless all travel between the Hasbroverse reality and the Conversion Bureau reality ceases in two months, a total and catastrophic collapse of both realities could result. Hasbroverse!Earth and Equestria have to transport what relief supplies it can (and take in what refugees it can) within those two months to hopefully stave off disaster. There is a pinch more sugar, though, when the Neo-Equestrian remnants contact the benevolent Shattered Glass Decepticons for aid and they accept.
  • The new Neo-Equestrian rulers Luna and Cadence are saddened to learn that their Queen Celestia, the Elements of Harmony and Shining Armor are now all prisoners of the EDC, and will not be returned to Neo-Equestria.
  • Spike (and presumably all the other non-ponies of TCB!Earth) is unfortunately not going to be able to be turned back into a dragon, as there's no guarantee that the Potion Antidote will work on a non-human. And since the ones who made the antidote, as well as the potion itself, are all locked away in the RB!Equestria (Queen Celestia and TCB!Twilight are in prison, and RB!Twilight and Princess Celestia are back home without a way to contact the other universe) there's little chance anyone can find a way to turn them back. This effectively renders all non-pony and non-human sophont life in that world extinct.
• Blessed with Suck: Megan is transformed into a powerful alicorn... but since Celestia made the potion, it means Celestia can take control of her mind if she gets too close.
• Body Horror: The aftermath of getting hit by a Matrix-empowered, human-Alicorn-augmented Elements of Harmony is not pretty to Queen Celestia. Her hooves are chipped, her mane loses its luster, her wings are withered to nubs, her horn is shattered, and even her cutie mark is smeared away.
• Boom, Headshot!: What Elita-1 does to Shattered Glass Grimlock.
• Boring, but Practical: Biohazard suits for armed forces are capable of preventing humans from getting ponified via potion, which makes sense, as they're designed to keep out much, much worse.
• Canon Welding: The Conversion Bureau apparently takes place on the same Earth as Transformers: Shattered Glass. There is also reference to Unicron's attack on Cybertron in 2005.
• Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Averted. One of the tank divisions to help hit the barrier is French. The author has stated his distate for this trope.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • TCB!Shining attempts to use pegasi to create a tornado to blow away human artillery positions so that they can advance. This ends very badly for them, thanks to artillery saturating the area with airburst explosives.
  • When the army tries shelling the Barrier the first time, TCB!Celestia takes out four of the artillery emplacements with no real effort by teleporting over them and dropping potion on the crew. This is after she shoots a laser from her horn and slices up several supersonic attack aircraft and tanking hypersonic rail gun rounds.
  • TCB!Shining Armor charges Jazz with a squad of unicorns. Jazz decides to unleash his full sound system on them. Almost all of the unicorns are sent reeling, except one who loves the music Jazz is using, who starts headbanging and complimenting his tunes.
  • Elita-1 versus Shattered Glass Grimlock lasts barely a minute, and she dominates the fight for the most part.
  • Queen Celestia vs. Granny Bonnie. One is an Alicorn. The other is a contemporary of The One, the individual who created Unicron and Primus, and personally made the My Little Pony world. It goes poorly for Queen Celestia.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: The essence of Discord's Evil Gloating to Queen Celestia right as she is about to be undone by the Elements of Harmony.
  Queen Celestia: You warned me about the blond-haired human, about humans in general! I acted to stop your prophecy before Megan would destroy all that I built up!
  Discord: I know, I know! And you bought it! You bought my entire spiel hook, line and sinker!
• Drama-Preserving Handicap:
  • King Spykoran is the largest, most powerful dragon in the RB universe, but his obligations as King prevent him from getting directly involved.
  • Megan gets turned into an Alicorn, great! She also has to stay in Rainbow Bridge Equestria, because otherwise TCB!Celestia can take over her mind - and even there, Xenolestia still has a tiny bit of influence.
  • The TCB!Ponies hijack the Rainbow Bridge portal, blocking the way from both ends. This traps the RB!Equestria from aiding Earth for much of the initial conflict, including Celestia and her allies.
  • While there are Autobots on Earth, and they do join the fight right away, the majority of those Cybertronians who want to fight are on Cybertron, and spend most of the story en-route to Earth.
  • Queen Celestia is kept busy trying to send her will to corrupt Megan from the inside, and thus is too busy for much of the story to do the fire-and-brimstone routine she is fully capable of doing, aside from a few early skirmishes. Also, she is actually much weaker than she was against the first human world she fought, due to still recovering the magic used to extend Equestria over that Earth.
  • Despite how massively useful that having another alicorn would be for the war effort, Megan is unable to use any of her magical power once she's returned to human form, as her body is not designed for it, except in very specific circumstances. Such as, for example, combining it with the Elements of Harmony and the Matrix of Leadership to put Queen Celestia down.
• Dramatic Irony: Chapter 19 has Queen Celestia getting ready to move the barrier again, to stop the humans once and for all... unaware that an entire company of humans now has a foothold in her own country, captured a Newfoal Camp, raided Hoofington for food, and took multiple divisions of her own troops without firing a shot.
• Dying Race: TCB!Equestria saved seven billion humans, yay! Just one small snag- the number of newfoals is dropping rapidly. Despite Equestria's claims that no more need to starve, the conversion of one Earth just dumped seven billion new mouths to feed on a population - and system of infrastructure - that was not equipped to deal with that. Already, food shortages are cropping up, newfoals are starving to death, and the farms are quickly getting drained of nutrients from their soils (which will only make the problem worse).
• The End... Or Is It?: As Queen Celestia is locked in the dungeons in RB!Equestria, RB!Discord appears to her, gloating that he broke out a week ago and replaced the statue, and now it's time for him to have some fun.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: None of the TCB!Ponies seem to understand why the RB!Ponies are allied with the humans, only thinking that the humans are monsters who need to be changed.
• Evil Gloating: In the fleeting moments before Queen Celestia is hit by the Matrix-augmented Elements of Harmony, Discord appears in a brief vision to her, brings up his original warning about humans and the blonde-haired human in particular all those years ago, and cackles that she bought his entire spiel, hook, line and sinker.
• Evil vs. Evil:
  • Tirac vs. Grogar in TCB!Equestria.
  • Starscream leads a faction of Decepticons who want the war to end, and in exchange for political considerations (being acknowledged as a real state, not having to worry about Autobots and Humans deciding to destroy him because he's a Decepticon, prisoner exchanges, etc.) he and his soldiers join the fight against the TCB Ponies.
• Explosive Leash: TCB!Celestia recruits the Shattered Glass Autobots to her cause by planting explosive crystals next to their Spark Chambers while they were asleep, then threatening to detonate them if they don't comply. At the end, the three surviving SG!Autobots reveal that in exchange for helping Neo-Equestria, Luna and Cadance removed those crystals.
• The Famine: The end result of taking a nation whose infrastructure absolutely cannot handle it and dumping seven billion new mouths into the system - Neo-Equestria, contrary to the words of the Princesses and the Elements, is undergoing a massive one. Newfoals are starving in the streets, the soil cannot support such large populations without nutrients (earth pony magic or no), and to quote some of the human troops, "If society is only three missed meals away from anarchy, it looks like they missed two." Interestingly, in this case there is nothing wrong with the land, no disease killing the crops, or anything on the plant end of things that's wrong - it's simply that there's far too many ponies.
• Fan Boy: Spike (the Ponyville dragon), of the Dinobots.
• Fantastic Racism: TCB!Ponies obviously hate humans, of course, but even between normal Equestrians and newfoals there's racism, as Sergeant Steady Hooves comments that at least he's a "True Equestrian," and not a "Jumped up ape."
  • TCB!Ponies tend to blame all violent impulses of the Hasbroverse ponies on their interactions with the humans. Rares accuses Rarity of this when Rarity confesses to knowing Equestrian Martial arts... only for Rarity to turn this back on Rares when Rarity tells her she learned it way before they made contact with the humans.
  • While it's not shown directly, there was definitely this between ponies of TCB!Equus and the other life on their world, as shown when they used the potion to convert all sapient non-pony life, as the Griffins and Spike could attest to.
• Forced Transformation: The newfoals could be described as this. Megan's transformation was definitely this since it involved her being force-fed the potion.
  • One of President Abernathy's Secret Service is forcibly ponified in the first shot of the war, and the artillery battalions dropped in to take down the barrier are also destroyed and converted by Queen Celestia.
  • The epilogue reveals that the Rainbow Bridge universe has not only learned how to make potion antidote, but have provided the recipe to their counterparts. The process of changing people back to what they were, including those from the Rainbow Bridge universe, is underway.
• Foreshadowing:
  • When Twilight is channeling the energy of Autobot City through her in order to magically analyze the Potion, some of the power appears to be taking the form of wings on her back.
  • Throughout the story, multiple individuals have commented on how there's no way to support the population of Equestria and seven billion new ponies with their current farming infrastructure. Chapter nineteen shows the results of that.
  • Chapter 23 might have some as Megan "ponies up" at the end of the chapter.
• The Glomp: Applejack gives one to Rainbow Dash after Dash, Twilight and Spike return from over the Rainbow Bridge, during which Applejack thought they'd been killed by the dragon.
• God Guise: Inverted. At least one pony claims that Megan has finally shown her true form when she's seen as an Alicorn.
• Godzilla Threshold: When the Conversion Bureau invasion of Earth looks like it's going to accelerate, President Abernathy makes preparations to enact General Plan 24 as the equivalent nuclear option - using all available Enterprise-class space battleships to conduct an Energon cannon Orbital Bombardment of the enemy beachhead barrier (which is in the middle of Kentucky) and glass it off the map.
  • After a pegasus incursion actually makes it to the Oval Office, President Abernathy sets it in motion. It is finally enacted in Chapter 22 - with every battleship the EDC has in its Navy - and the 15-barreled Energon blast is just enough to shatter the barrier.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: The TCB!Mane Six fall into three categories when they get their Elements revoked. Four of them get a My God, What Have I Done? moment, Rares tries to gather soil for an "Empire of Dirt.", and Twilight doubles down and claims that Celestia will destroy them all regardless.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: When TCB!Celestia attacks, Optimus himself takes the fastest route from Cybertron to Earth with an army of Cybertronians.
  • In turn, TCB!Celestia decides to bring in the Shattered Glass Autobots, promptly renaming their Optimus to Nemesis Prime to avoid confusion.
  • The Autobots manage to forge a truce with Starscream's faction of Decepticons, and they're sending help to Earth as well.
• Good Is Not Soft: Twilight Sparkle described Queen Majesty as such. Rainbow Dash second that.
  Rainbow Dash: Listen, I don't know much about Majesty, but what the Princess Ponies told me about her and what I've read? She was crazy! A grade-A psychopath!
• The Good King: Surprisingly, Starscream is shaping up to be this for the New Decepticon Empire. It's not totally benevolent, though- as he explains, much of the reason he's acting so nice is because of pragmatism. The Decepticons have no way to increase their numbers, while the Autobots do, and they're outnumbered and outgunned by the Autobots and their allies by a wide margin. Being more benevolent and caring about his subjects isn't just something good for the realm, it's a survival trait at this point.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Starscream even has to point out he was a Scientist before the Great War and does in fact have skills and personality traits beyond being the trope with his name on it.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Applejack lampshades this by pointing out that the Autobots wear less clothing than [the ponies] do.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: We have humans interacting with Ponies and Cybertronians, each with their own version of sayings such as "You read my Hard Drive" and "Everypony."
• Homeworld Evacuation: One is being prepared by Earth in case the Barrier cannot be stopped. Unlike in "Other Side of the Spectrum" or other similar Conversion Bureau fics, this is feasible because of the Transformers's Space Bridge technologies, not to mention a functional space navy, offworld allies, and operational human offworld colonies.
  • The epilogue reveals that before the two universes are severed again, TCB!Equestria started sending large numbers of Newfoals over to the Rainbow Bridge world to try to alleviate the overpopulation issue (done with the RB!Earth's permission this time).
• Hulk Speak: Averted by SG!Grimlock, who is quite well spoken, even if he does have the habit of announcing himself as "I, Grimlock."
• Humans Are Special: The Autobot-Decepticon war raged for tens of millions of years. Humans get first contact, and thirty years later, the war is largely over thanks to them forging an alliance of aliens and Cybertronians to ensure peace among the stars. This is of course the "Humans Build Communities" type of special, as seen in Star Trek or Babylon 5.
  • It's unknown what, if any, form this Trope would apply to to the Shattered Glass humans, as they've all been Ponified by the time of the story. Admittedly, some have come back thanks to the reversal of the Potion by the end of the story.
• Humans Are Warriors: As Jazz points out, humans aren't as defenseless as they were when the Transformers first made contact in 1984. With the help of the Autobots, they've driven the Decepticons from the solar system and are the glue of an interstellar alliance against the myriad threats of the Hasbroverse.
  • It's implied that the Conversion-Earth humans weren't much different, as they were apparently building up to a major war that would turn the Cold War hot when the ponies made contact. This is information that is only learned about after the fact, though, and we have no eyewitness testimonies to confirm it (and based on the word of a pony nurse).
• Hypocrite: One of the reasons the TCB!Elements claim that their version of Harmony is superior is that no one starves to death, that everyone is fed. Yet we see that Equestria simply cannot handle absorbing seven billion newfoals and can't keep up with food production, so there are people starving to death... and TCB!Twilight knows this, as she handled a report that said this exact thing.
  • Also, for all that the Conversion Bureau denounces humanity as barbaric and warmongering, Twilight Sparkle asserts that the ponies, especially Queen Majesty herself, do not have clean hooves in any sense of the word. Rainbow Dash even calls Majesty a grade-A psychopath.
  • Despite their claims that they are better and more enlightened, the TCB!Ponies were the ones to fire the first shots of the war between their world and the Hasbroverse. Even leaving out that Queen Celestia kidnapped and forcibly ponified Megan, or that she used the barrier to bulldoze human property, her forces were the ones who launched a potion attack in the middle of a diplomatic meeting.
• I Call It "Vera": This is what Captain Jack Burns calls the primary Energon cannon of his Cool Starship Enterprise.
• Ironic Hell: Doctor Redheart was one of the ponies who supported converting the humans of the first Earth they came across, because she honestly thought that it was the best option (the Earth at the time was in the middle of a Cold War that was rapidly heating up). Now she's a doctor trying to keep the thousands of starving, malnourished, dying newfoals alive after the infrastructure of Neo-Equestria couldn't make enough food for seven billion new ponies plus the original population, and mass starvation is starting to affect the original Equestrians as well. Judging by her reaction when the camp she's in is liberated, she's well aware of how badly the original intentions have gone.
• It's Personal: The Neo-Equestrian Invasion was personal to Celestia, Luna and the Mane Six by virtue of Megan being forcibly pony-fied, but it becomes this to President Abernathy as well when a long-time member of the Secret Service is pony-fied during his first parley with TCB!Queen Celestia.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: Neo-Equestrian Sergeant Heavy Wind shouldn't have wasted time monologuing when he busts into the Oval Office ready to ponify everyone in it; President Abernathy and the Secret Service just gun him down with a fusillade of laser fire.
• Know When to Fold Them: Neo-Equestrian Sergeant Steady Hooves and his spear-wielding squad, when faced with a detachment of human and RB!Equestrian tanks, decides to surrender to save the lives of his squad.
• Legacy Vessel Naming: Mixed with its sister trope Dead Guy Junior, one of the Enterprise-class battleships of the EDC Navy is named the Conrad Hauser, after the real name of Duke from G.I. Joe, who died during an attack by COBRA remnants on West Point.
• The Maker: Granny Bonnie is the one for the Equstrians. She's a contemporary of The One, who is this trope for the Transformers.
• Malicious Slander: In the aftermath of the Neo-Equestrian invasion, Coyote News Network tries to paint Vice-President Alexis Thi-Dang as "Do-Nothing Thi-Dang" due to being absent throughout the whole situation, because she was in NORAD coordinating an important military operation (Operation Exodus). President Abernathy proceeds to cancel his upcoming interview with them.
• Mama Bear: When TCB!Celestia threatens to convert Megan's daughter Michelle, Megan is able to defy the potion's mind control, attack Celestia, and teleport her to safety.
• Mirror Universe: Rainbow Bridge Equestria (the main setting of this story) vs. The Conversion Bureau Equestria. The former owes its existence to human civilization and the help of human individuals; the latter has already forcibly ponified its respective Earth. Inevitably, the two don't see eye to eye.
  • TCB!Celestia, meanwhile, decides to reactivate the SG!Autobots, which proves that this is also a mirror universe for Transformers G1.
  • According to Redheart, the earth that Neo-Equestria first invaded was one in the midst of the Cold War, one that was heating up.
  • In the Earth converted by TCB!Celestia, Star Trek was never made, and Lost In Space became the Sci-Fi franchise that replaced it in popular culture. RB!Pinkie, on hearing this, declares it the "darkest timeline."
• Mirror Match: Princess Celestia and Optimus Prime vs. TCB!Queen Celestia and Shattered Glass Optimus/Nemesis Prime. Five of the six fights between the Rainbow Bridge Mane Six and the Conversion Bureau Mane Six also count, with the sixth having Megan assist Twilight Sparkle against her counterpart.
• Multiple Gunshot Death: What President Abernathy and the Secret Service do to two enemy Pegasi who actually manage to get as far as the Oval Office. With laser pistols.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Doctor Redheart, from the TCB version of Equestria, has been undergoing this feeling for a while, but she says it out loud when she hears exactly how bad the food problem is in Hoofington.
  • Of the TCB!Elements, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash all get hit with this once their Elements decree that they are not worthy. Rarity goes mad and tries to collect dirt while Twilight doubles down.
• My God, You Are Serious!: TCB!Luna has this reaction when she learns that the Earth Defense Command and Rainbow Bridge!Equestria have absolutely no intention of releasing Queen Celestia, the Elements of Harmony or Shining Armor to their home dimension in the wake of the war, due to their part in it.
• Mythology Gag: While facing her TCB counterpart, Pinkie Pie mentions the time she tried too hard making friends with Cranky Doodle.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The TCB!Ponies thought they were saving the Shattered Glass earth from Nuclear Annihilation of the Cold War. They may have... though given that the Cold War fizzled out without major conflict in both the real-world version of earth and the Hasbroverse Earth, and that all the humans were ponified, we will never know. On the flipside, because they now have to share resources with seven billion Newfoals, starvation and food shortages are now rampant in Neo-Equestria. In the end, after losing the war, they resort to shipping large portions of the population to the Hasbroverse Equestria and Earth, and need rescuing from the Shattered Glass Decepticons.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Flash Sentry accidentally spills that the vials that he had on him when he was captured were samples of the conversion potion. This allows humanity, RB!Twilight, and the Autobots to begin working on an antidote.
  • The Conversion Ponies invaded Earth to destroy them. Unintentionally, this allows Starscream to get his foot in the door regarding peace talks between his faction of Decepticons and the EDC and its allies. Shortly after the talks are concluded, several Decepticons arrive on earth to help fight.
  • Queen Celestia pony-fied Megan into an alicorn, and in her attempts to get away from her, Megan manages to teleport to Equestria without using the blockaded Rainbow Bridge to cross dimensions. When she reunites with her own Celestia and Luna, she teaches them how to do it too, allowing for re-contact with Rainbow Bridge!Earth and an incursion into Neo-Equestria.
  • Queen Celestia's attacks on the Hasbroverse have two effects.
    • First, by ponifying Megan, she gives Megan access to Magic and draws Hasbroverse Equestria into a war with Neo-Equestria.
    • Second, by attempting to ponify the Hasbroverse Earth, it draws in the EDC and its allies, which means the Transformers show up. These two effects lead to her ultimate downfall via a teamup of the Matrix of Leadership, the Hasbroverse Elements of Harmony, and Megan's powers.
• Noodle Incident:
  Megan: "We've got about a week, and I do not want Pinkie Pie overdoing it like with Danielle. Or when I went back to Equestria. Or when the Cake twins were born. Or–"
  
  Megan: "Michelle will have a nice, fun birthday party that won't force the police to come and politely ask us to stop it from overflowing into the streets."
  • In a darker version, we're told that there aren't any Griffins or other non-ponies anymore in the TCB Equestria world, and that they were all turned to ponies. In fact for most of the story it's all brushed off and barely mentioned.
• No Ontological Inertia: As soon as Queen Celestia is hit with the Elements, the mind control she has over the newfoals and her fellow Alicorns breaks immediately. Further the barrier she has over the Rainbow Bridge breaks.
• Not Big Enough for the Two of Us: Metroplex's Bring It phrase to Shattered Glass!Omega Doom.
• Not Hyperbole: After Queen Celestia's invasion begins and cuts off Equestria from Earth, the usually overdramatic Rarity declares that this truly is the worst possible thing. Applejack grimly acknowledges that this time, she's right.
• "Not So Different" Remark: The TCB!Mane Six insist that humans are awful, completely unlike ponies, which is why they need to be ponified. The RB!Mane Six fire back that Humanity and Ponies aren't so different, that despite protests, ponies have had wars, insane beings, and animosity, pointing out to well-known historical figures from Equestrian history, such as Commander Hurricane and Queen Majesty.
  • TCB!Rarity (Rares) tries to call out Rainbow Bridge!Rarity on how she has learned martial arts and ways of fighting, traits she obviously got from the humans... only for Rarity to point out that she learned those skills from ponies way before the humans made contact.
• Off with His Head!:
  • The Behemoth Battle mentioned above ends with Metroplex literally punching Omega Doom's block off.
  • What Optimus Prime does to Nemesis Prime at the blade of an Energon axe.
• Orbital Bombardment: Also known as the Earth Defense Command's General Plan 24 - bombardment of a ground target with the Energon cannons of as many Enterprise-class space battleships of the EDC as can be made available.
• Orcus on His Throne: Queen Celestia stays off the frontlines of the war because she's spending a portion of her attention trying to bend a pony-fied Megan to her will. When Megan is freed from the spell, Queen Celestia has her whole, undivided attention on fighting the humans.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Spike the dragon (G4 Spike who lives in Ponyville with Twilight Sparkle) and Spike Witwicky are both characters in this story. Played straighter in that G1 Spike also exists, but he's known as Spykoran.
  • Since this is a story about an invasion from a parallel universe, there are multiple instances of certain characters. Usually their names are written differently to distinguish them, such as "Rarity" being the "normal" version, while the TCB version is called "Rares" when the two share a scene/chapter.
  • Played straight in the case of Optimus Prime. His Shattered Glass counterpart is named Nemesis Prime by Queen Celestia to avoid confusion.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: An instance where the Chosen becomes unchosen - once the RB!Mane Six touch the Elements of Harmony of the TCB!Mane Six while delivering a "The Reason You Suck" Speech of why they've become antithetical to their Elements, the TCB!Elements rejudge their wielders, find them wanting, and abandon them.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: TCB!Twilight is shocked to see Queen Celestia sleeping, as are the Queen's guards. She's actually using her link to Megan to try to convert her to the Queen's way of thinking.
• Other Me Shocks And Horrifies Me: The TCB!Mane Six are shocked and horror-struck that their versions from this universe not only like the humans, but also revere them and allow their technology into Equestria (big no-no's for "The Conversion Bureau" ponies). The RB!Mane Six are at least equally horrified, if not more so, when they find out what their counterparts pulled on another Earth.
• Our Presidents Are Different: Clayton Abernathy a.k.a. General Hawk of G.I. Joe is President Action, obviously, with a bit of President Personable. His bodyguards have a tough time keeping up with him.
• Overpopulation Crisis: Neo-Equestria is going through one of these, on account of converting an entire Earth's worth of humans and introducing all seven billion mouths into pony society at the same time. Interestingly, the only major resulting sub-crisis addressed onscreen is the food issue, namely, that there's not enough of it to go around.
• Point of Divergence:
  • The event that went wrong that caused the formation of TCB!Equestria instead of regular Equestria? Firefly didn't come back over the Rainbow Bridge, but the specific circumstances surrounding it are unknown, though since it was the Earth of Shattered Glass... Additionally, Majesty directly made Celestia and Luna to be the sword of the pony race, hence why it was so easy for TCB!Discord to manipulate Celestia into going down the path of tyranny with his bogus prohpecy.
  • In addition, Mount Saint Hillary never erupted in that timeline, which in turn never reactivated the Ark or woke up the Shattered Glass Autobots.
• Puny Humans: To the TCB!Ponies, humans are this — they're weak and need to be uplifted for their own good. This trope is actually averted in the story proper, with even Jazz pointing out that they're not as defenseless as they were when the Autobots first came back online. It's telling that Starscream's terms for his Decepticons' surrender specifically mention that they won't be hunted by Autobots or humans.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: After he gets shot down, TCB!Flash Sentry is surprised that the humans are willing to take him prisoner (and not just shoot him in the head, or torture him).
  • President Abernathy goes up to the Barrier to try to talk things out with TCB!Celestia, to inform her of the consequences and what the possible results will be. He does not say that the World will go to war, just that that is a possible outcome of TCB!Celestia's actions. He tries to be reasonable in every meeting he has with TCB!Ponies, even when their version of the Mane Six land on the White House lawn after the ponies converted one of his personal guard, and major combat operations have commenced. Only after he's positive that there's no way to avert war does he stop trying to talk.
• Retcon: Word of God originally had the Combaticons (except Swindle who already left) killed off in an ambush in 2009, until he decided to bring them into the story.
• Retroactive Wish: Danny makes two in quick succession. When Rainbow Dash mentions needing Princess Celestia and the Elements of Harmony, only for Celestia to appear across dimensions with said Elements, Danny quickly asks for Susanna Hoffs from The Bangles to appear and declare her love for him. Then later, when it is mentioned that they need to get in touch with the higher-ups, a military escort arrives to get everyone up to speed, and Danny quickly asks for 5 million dollars in his bank account. Neither wish amounts to much.
• Running Gag: A tad on the Black Comedy side of things, but TCB!ponies asking TCB!Spike to write letters or take notes for them... except that since he's been turned into a pony and thus has no hands, he can't actually write anything.
• Schmuck Bait: During her final confrontation between the two Celestias, RB!Celestia says that her new necklace gives her enough power to match the Heart of Ponyland. TCB!Celestia wastes no time shattering it... releasing Princess Celestia's backup, Princess Cadance. RB!Celestia admits that she can't believe her counterpart fell for it.
  • Queen Celestia's gullibility is somewhat of a running theme, as Discord of her world used his fake prophecy to get Queen Celestia to go up against humanity to "eliminate the threat" those humans posed. This eventually led her to invade the Hasbroverse, and ultimately led to her undoing.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: TCB Discord warns TCB Celestia and Luna that they'll be defeated by Megan some time in the future. This is implied to be Alternate Celestia's Freudian Excuse for starting the conversion bureaus, something Megan takes exception to. The conclusion is still a long way off, but all signs point to it being this.
  • Seems to be partially true, but not the real reason XenoCelestia is very xenophobic.
• Shout-Out:
  • "We have an Optimus Prime."^note It helps that Megan saw the movie with Mike.
  • Cybertron orbits Wolf 359.^note The star system that, in the famous episode "Best of Both Worlds", Starfleet was handed a humiliating defeat by the Borg.
• The Starscream: Starscream, the Trope Namer himself, leading his own nation? Oh, this should be good, that shrieking, trecherous son-of-a-glitch will surely... rule wisely and not deliberately betray other surrounding nations? Take into consideration territorial borders? Not scream and whine when things don't go his way? Starscream realizes that, unlike when he tried to take over the Decepticons before, his forces are surrounded on all sides, are hilariously outnumbered and outgunned by other stellar nations, and what's worse is that they don't have a way to increase their numbers except by immigration. Starscream might not be perfect, but he's doing what's necessary for his nation.
• Stab the Scorpion: After the Neo-Equestrian/Shattered Glass Autobot attack on Autobot City where the Autobots and Starscream's Decepticon faction work together, Shockwave aims his cannon in Optimus Prime's direction to blast away an enemy SG!Autobot that was approaching him from behind.
  Shockwave: You did not flinch.
  Optimus: Shooting me would be... illogical in this location, Shockwave.
• Start of Darkness: We see a flashback explaining why TCB!Celestia is so afraid of humans. Discord warned her about them, saying they would defeat her. Later on, we see that the event that changed everything was far earlier than expected — TCB!Firefly never returned from over the Rainbow Bridge. Further, Discord could already see that Celestia was becoming a Knight Templar in her own right, and made up the prophecy to get her to inadvertantly seek out her own doom.
• Stupid Evil: Flutters, the TCB version of Fluttershy, is the only member of the TCB ponies whose actions can't be explained by logic. The others seem to take their element to a twisted conclusion, like Dash and AJ, or personal loyalty to Celestia, like Twilight. These can be explained or excused in one way or another based on their character, their circumstances, and their connection to their element. Flutters does not get this luxury, and instead hates the humans because she can't stand the thought of creatures — any creatures — eating other creatures, simply because it's part of their biology. This extends to the creatures under her care, which she's trying to teach not to eat meat and to instead eat plants (something that is extremely dangerous and hazardous to the animals in question), and ignores that humans can choose to not eat meat (as Vegetarians and Vegans do in real life). This is a point that the humans in "Savior of Worlds" were worried about (to the point of Megan's family reorganizing the fridge so that all the meat products were hidden from view, so as not to disturb their guests) but the ponies simply brushed off. In short, she's not basing her decision on the element she's linked to, making her seem more like a Take That! against those who rally against the evils of meat-eating.
• Tank Goodness:
  • The main place where humans are seen in Equestria is at an army base where tanks are stored, both human and pony. Later, RB!Luna opens a portal from their base to TCB!Equestria for them to cause mayhem.
  • One of Blitzwing's alt-modes (he's a Triple-Changer, he has three transformations instead of just two) is that of a tank.
  • In chapter 19, a group of human tanks runs into a group of Neo-Equestrian soldiers. The soldiers surrender when it's pointed out that all they have are spears, while the other side consists of over a hundred tanks.
  • Human hovertanks are deployed against Shattered Glass drone robots.
• Teleport Interdiction: The Conversion Bureau's invasion of Earth also cut their own Equestria off from Earth. Some work is done to figure out how to get around it.
• Tempting Fate:
  • At the start of the story, Megan prepares for Michelle's 11th birthday party by using Reverse Psychology on fate and shouting to the sky that everything will go wrong. Unfortunately, fate decides to oblige and the Neo-Equestrian Invasion starts shortly after.
  • Queen Celestia tells the President that no human weapons can pierce the barrier. Later, General Order 24 is enacted and it turns out that fifteen space battleships performing a Wave-Motion Gun Orbital Bombardment on the barrier can, in fact, break it.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The final confrontation between the Mane Six of both worlds leads to the Rainbow Bridge versions spelling out exactly how their TCB counterparts have, through their support of Queen Celestia's xenophobic doctrine, become antithetical to the Elements they carry. And when the TCB!Elements of Harmony realize this, things go badly for their now-unworthy wielders.
• This Cannot Be!: Queen Celestia's reaction when the human battleships' Orbital Bombardment manages to break down the barrier.
• This Is Unforgivable!: In Princess Celestia's eyes, her TCB counterpart Queen Celestia crossed the Moral Event Horizon when she brainwashed her sister and her niece into her mindless pawns, along with using them as conduits to prevent the Heart of Ponyland's sheer power from overwhelming her.
  Princess Celestia: I held out hope, even a small sliver, that we could reach an agreement, a truce, something to stop the fighting. I held it until now. Now that small sliver is gone. Now I know you are beyond hope, beyond redemption. I can't even think of you as 'Celestia'!
• This Means War!: After his first diplomatic attempt to communicate with Queen Celestia ends with a Secret Service member getting pony-fied and brainwashed, President Abernathy makes a formal declaration of war against Neo-Equestria, with many allied countries and the Autobots following suit as per the Geneva Accords.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • In return for Starscream's assistance during the Neo-Equestrian invasion, the EDC and the Autobots release the captured Combaticons to the New Deception Empire, and Starscream provides them new Combiner-capable bodies for their sparks.
  • For all the defeat Neo-Equestria suffered, when the new rulers Luna and Cadence, with the SG!Autobot survivors, contact the SG!Decepticons to beg for aid, the noble SG!Megatron is more than happy to assist.
• Took a Level in Badass: Little Strong Heart, a buffalo, was just another member of her tribe when we first saw her. Now she's the ambassador to Cybertron.
  • Humanity in general. In between the many alien invasions, crisis, and general weirdness that's been happening since the days of Cobra and the Decepticons, mankind is now no longer in desperate need of the Autobots (or other aliens) to fight their battles for them - they've got weapons, technology, and even magic of their own.
• Trial by Friendly Fire: When Shockwave and his fellow Decepticons of Starscream's faction arrive at Autobot City and engage the Neo-Equestrian/Shattered Glass Autobot siege, the city's defenses stop firing to avoid hitting their new allies. Shockwave proceeds to transmit targeting data to the gunners to provide them with more accurate aiming.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: In talking between Megan's Elements and TCB!Celestia's Elements, the latter holds this as their justification for helping with ponyfication.
  • Even those who weren't Queen Celestia's lackeys held this belief, somewhat- Redheart believed that Ponification was the only way to save humanity, who were locked in a Cold War that could have gone hot at any moment. Her view has changed on seeing the end result of it.
• War Fic: Not to an outrageous extent, but it is a story about an enemy invasion of ponies that wish to convert the humans of Earth against their will. Said humans and all of Earth's allies object strongly... with guns.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: TCB!Celestia. From what we see of other members of her government, including Shining Armor and the TCB!Elements, this seems to be a widespread belief.
  • Depending on if Redheart was telling the truth or not, the first Earth that was encountered was in the midst of the Cold War, and it appeared to be ramping up. Many ponies actually wanted to save the humans, and didn't look down on them. That being said, in the same chapter, it's revealed that all the other sentient races of Equestria's world were ponified as well before the jump was made to the first Earth.
• Wham Episode: Chapter 17. The Moochick is still alive, Granny Bonnie appears and helps free Megan from Queen Celestia's spell, reverting Megan to human form again, and in the process permanently removes part of Celestia's power (a very, very small amount of it, but still some). Additionally, Bonnie reveals that she has stood alongside other massively powerful beings in the Hasbroverse, including The One, the Creator God of the Transformers mythos.
• What Does She See in Him?: Gender-reversed. Megan mentioned how Danny had a crush on the "psycho"^note her name is revealed to be Shelby Smith who actually was Sunset Shimmer mentioned in The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds.
  • Nearly this exact sentiment is expressed by the TCB!Ponies about their Rainbow Bridge doubles regarding humanity.
• Year Outside, Hour Inside: One of the fears early on in the conflict is that thanks to Neo-Equestria cutting off access to the Rainbow Bridge, the two worlds might go out of time-sync again (time is 75:1 in favor of Equestria). Thankfully, this is averted.
• You Are Too Late: RB!Twilight Sparkle only finds out about the Ponified TCB!Spike mere moments before all dimensional contact between the two worlds must cease to prevent dimensional collapse.
• You Can't Go Home Again: The TCB Elements of Harmony, Shining Armor (Shiny), and Queen Celestia are taken prisoner by the Rainbow Bridge Equestria and Earth, and are sentenced to life in prison. Since the portal between TCB Earth/Equestria has to be permanently shut down (lest an apocalypse happen), they can never return even if they were to be released from prison.
• You Monster!: When Optimus Prime calls you this, you know you're messed up. This is his reaction upon finding out Queen Celestia brainwashed her sister Luna and her niece Cadance into her pawns.
• You Shall Not Pass!: Subverted. The TCB!Mane Six try to do this to Optimus Prime and Princess Celestia as they head for Queen Celestia, but Celestia simply teleports herself and Optimus past them and carry on while the RB!Mane Six and Megan occupy their counterparts.

Chaos Runs Rampant

• Actually Pretty Funny: When Discord tries to teleport Megan, he fails, leading her to imply that he's impotent and needs 'Male Enhancement.' Discord waffles for a few seconds before admitting that that was a good one.
• Adaptational Badass: In canon, only Twilight was not discorded. In this story, Fluttershy is the only Bearer to succumb... though Twilight teleporting to her friends and helping to break them out helps.
• Adaptational Villainy: per the author's words, this is Discord if he wasn't restricted by TV Guidelines. He's shown doing much more horrific things to ponies, like making them dance until their hooves crack and bleed, or making The Doctor exist as all his regenerations at the same time (i.e. as a horrible amorphous blob).
• Anti-Magic: Discord's powers are immense, but they aren't perfect. Bobby's club, Mike's armor and weapons, Celestia's shield, and the Elements of Harmony are all able to protect their users from attack, and in some cases, drive out the corruptive chaos on their own.
• Back from the Dead:
  • Discord tempts Applejack by bringing back her parents.
  • This is also how he tortures AJ, the Conversion Bureau version of Applejack: bringing back AJ's ancestors to give her a What the Hell, Hero? speech about her past.
• Badass in Distress: The first thing Discord does upon the destruction of his statue is to kidnap Megan.
• Continuity Nod: When Danielle is with the Doctor and his family, The Doctor recovers from Discord's ministrations in the Zero Room, a room in the TARDIS specifically for mental healing established in the Fifth Doctor's tenure. The nanites used to heal Danielle are from "The Doctor Dances," and Danielle accidentally freaks out the Whooves family when she asks if Ditzy is her mummy. When the author listed the Doctors established as part of the "Amalgam Doctor", he included all the Doctors up to 13, as well as Peter Cushing (who played the role in two movies). The Amalgam Doctor starts off by asking Danielle and Spike if they'd like a Jelly Baby.
• Darker and Edgier: Again, Discord isn't restricted by TV Guidelines here. Full-on mind rape and torture are not out of the question for him, and we see that even "Comical Pranks," like turning stairs into a slip-and-slide can seriously injure people- Danielle breaks her leg, gets a minor concussion, and gets bruised ribs from that particular stunt.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap:
  • Discord immediately kidnaps Megan, depriving the ponies of her as-yet nebulous powers and her proven badassitude.
  • The Doctor is shown to be one of the first taken out, since, as someone who's beaten entire intergalactic and interdimensional empires, he's a pretty big contender for "Guy most likely to defeat eldritch monsters."
  • Bobby's Club is capable of not just knocking the effect of Discord out of someone or something (as shown on construction equipment and his commanding officer), as well as creating a force field that un-Discords everything in a radius... but after doing something like that it needs to recharge for a little while.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite all his chaos and evil, even Discord doesn't understand how the fashion industry works.
• The Lost Lenore: Shiny, the TCB version of Shining Armor, gets tortured by Discord by having a seemingly solid image of his Cadence appear in his cell, only to vanish when he tries to approach it.
• No-Sell: Pinkie completely shuts down any attempt at Discord corrupting her.

Other stories/General

• Adaptational Job Change: Torch was the Dragon Lord, sole leader of all dragons in the series. Here, he's one of the 13 Clan leaders; he's leader of the Bloodstone Scepter Clan.
• Adaptational Sexuality: Rarity appears to be a lesbian. In Chaos Runs Rampant, it seems that she has a secret crush on Applejack, if Discord's attempt at Rarity is anything to go by. Though since she tried to flirt with Blueblood, either she's bisexual or hasn't figured out her sexuality yet.
• Back from the Dead: In Bring Them Back, Prowl, Ratchet, Ironhide and Brawn were brought back to life by the Quintessons.
• Babies Ever After: In the wake of the war's end, the Autobots developed a new way of creating Transformers — or more specifically, their sparks — by combining the energies of two preexisting sparks. This removes, as "Dare to Be Stupid!" calls it, the bottleneck of sparks only being able to be created by the Matrix (only one of them and in the care of the leader of the Autobots) or Vector Sigma (which was difficult to get to even when there wasn't a war on). The end of United We Stand reveals that Starscream's Decepticons stole the plans and are working on repopulating as well.
• Continuity Nod: The dragon that attacked Albert and his friends in Ponyville is the same green dragon that kickstarted Savior of Worlds.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: In Bargains and Dragons, Bobby tells Albert that someone from their group is also in Equestria. Albert knows that Hank, Sheila, and Diana are doing their own things, so that leaves one person.
• Genre Throwback: The Transformers as shown in the Hasbroverse are almost exclusively based on their original G1 portrayals, from their occasionally electronically distorted voices to the use of outdated terminology like "laser cores" rather than the nigh-universally adopted "spark", and Optimus Prime being portrayed as not being above making jokes or even quipping mid-fight.
• Higher-Tech Species: Transformers fit in terms of the more advanced tech, and the part about being older than the other spacefaring races, but lack the attitude more common to this trope.
  • Time Lords fit this trope a little better.
• Humans Are Advanced: Ponies are repeatedly amazed by the technology that humans carry around with them. For example, Twilight is astounded that the little device Megan carries in her pocket is a phone, given all the things it can do, not to mention that Ponyville only has two in the entire town- one in the Mayor's office and one in the Library. In Multiversal Harmony, Pinkie has one of her own and gleefully shows it off to the other ponies who don't have such tech. Of course, this is inverted when compared to the Cybertronians.
• Humanity Is Average/Puny Humans: When it comes to magic, Ponies manage to outgun us by a lot. The number of humans who can use magic, as demonstrated in Bargains and Dragons is very small, and compared to even unicorn foals, they're pretty weak. Likewise, Humans are short lived and rather literally puny compared to the local nigh-immortal twenty to thirty foot giant robots, and all of their most advanced technology are effectively Cybertronian hand-me-downs. However, as implied, they also can do both and are quick learners.
  • In general, though, humans have taken a level in badass. Far from the squishy meat that needs to be protected, humanity now has fleets of starships, advanced technology, and the ability to hold their own on the interstellar stage.
• Humanity Is Divided: Downplayed. Earth does still largely operate under the various nation-states that it does today, but are largely working together and have little trouble rallying together when Xenolestia and the TCB!Ponies come knocking.
• Kent Brockman News: Rosie Ramirez (daughter of Hector Ramirez, a recurring character in the 80s Hasbro cartoons as exactly this sort of reporter) accuses Megan of being a pawn of our new pony overlords. She stops harassing Megan when Shipwreck reminds her about her interview with Stephanie Meyer.
• Killed Off for Real: Wreck And Ruin shows the Stunticons die in a last stand. The Combaticons (minus Swindle, who ran away earlier) decide to surrender instead.
• Lampshade Hanging: Even Optimus Prime doesn't know where his trailer goes when he transforms (he, like many fans, believes it to be a subspace pocket).
• Legend Fades to Myth: There were already examples of this with Megan becoming the goddess Mag'ne, Kentucky becoming the holy land of Key'tuck, and more. "Shape Up Or Slaughter Out," revealed that the Bloody Jaws, legendary warlords and warriors from the land of Key'tuck, were actually a distorted version of the G.I. Joes.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": At the "first contact" ceremony in Side Stories, Megan starts shaking and stammering when meeting President Abernathy. Lampshaded by Russian Premier Brekhov.
  "She raises princesses by hand and forges a nation from chaos, but a president makes her pale and stammer."
  • Megan Richards née Williams spent her formative years defeating evil tyrants, uniting disparate pony enclaves, raising future monarchs and preventing all-out Sugar Apocalypses. Marvin Hinton is also Roadblock of G.I. Joe, the US's top special missions force, and strong enough to carry BFGs on a regular basis. When they meet, they eagerly ask the other to sign the former's children's book series and the latter's cooking videos.
• Massive Multiplayer Crossover: Word of God has called it the Hasbroverse, though for the most part it's kept to fairly minor hints; G.I. Joe characters holding governmental jobs (General Hawk is now President Abernathy of the U.S., while his Oktober Guard (Russia's G.I. Joe equivalent) counterpart, Ivan Brekhov, is now Premier of Russia), Jem and the Holograms being a popular band, the existence of The Transformers (Megan and Mike apparently went to Autobot City on their honeymoon, Chip Chase is now an aide to President Abernathy), etc.
  • COBRA was pretty much destroyed in the mid-90s, with only a few higher-level officers (including Cobra Commander himself) surviving after Cobra attacked the Decepticons and were nearly annihilated in return. (A full account is detailed in Day of the Broken Fang.)
  • The kids from Dungeons & Dragons (1983) did go there and come back, but it happened in the space of a single day. (It should be noted, this show was not aired in syndication, but on CBS, and it was produced solely by Marvel, with Sunbow not involved (Disney owns the rights to the cartoon now); presumably it counts because Hasbro owns the rights to D&D, having acquired Wizards of the Coast in 2000.)
    • In United We Stand, Albert "Presto" Preston appears as President Abernathy's magical expert. Bobby and Eric also appear in the side story Bargains and Dragons, talking about what they all have been up to since then.
  • The Decepticons fractured into two factions after the end of the original Generation One series, one still led by Galvatron and the other by Starscream.
  • In The Conversion Bureau: United We Stand (itself a crossover between the Hasbroverse and The Conversion Bureau), it's mentioned idly that the Inhumanoids exist on this version of Earth as well.
    • The author's blog confirms that Inhumanoids is part of the canonical core for the Hasbroverse (considering that the Earth Corps' member Sabre Jet was implied, by real name, to be the Joe team's Ace).
  • Robert Epps makes an appearance near the end of the story. Seymour Simmons, Tom Banachek and Theodore Galloway are also mentioned.
    • William Lennox appears in United We Stand. In the Hasbroverse, he's a General of the Earth Defense Command.
    • In United We Stand, Jack Burns shows up as Captain of the space battleship Enterprise, and Cade and Tessa Yeager and Otis Watson are mentioned as neighbors and acquaintances of the Richards.
  • In United We Stand, it's shown that President Abernathy's Number Two is Vice-President Alexis Thi Dang.
  • The author also admits to using elements from the Marvel-produced comics of the series for some details — for example, Cobra Commander is based predominantly on his comic-book incarnation, meaning he was a lot more competent in this universe, as well as being a human ex-used cars salesman instead of an exiled serpent-man scientist (though he lived amongst Cobra-La briefly, and they came up with his cartoon backstory).
    • This is partially how the author justifies using the fanon character Dr. Whooves (a.k.a. The Doctor, reincarnated into a pony form) as a character; Marvel Comics actually had a character that crossed between their comic book runs of Transformers, Doctor Who, and the Marvelverse; a bounty hunter (er, "freelance peacekeeping agent") named Death's Head.
  • In Side Stories of First Contact, several chapters revolve around introducing ponies to Transformers.
  • The Misfits publicly dated the Dreadnoks — at least up until the Insecticons went and ate the Dreadnoks for dinner.
  • Moochik from G1 MLP is the brother of the Dungeonmaster from the D&D cartoon. And the realm where the D&D cartoon took place may be where Moochik and the other humans from Equestria went off to.
  • It's hinted that this story will eventually fully crossover with the Lunaverse fics, due to a dimension-hopping Trixie from that reality popping up in the Hasbroverse in the story Culture Clashes.
  • Joe Colton (the original G.I. Joe) and his Adventure Team were mentioned in Day of the Broken Fang.
  • Vinyl Scratch played a song by The Rocking Beats.
  • Animated Wreck-Gar is the son of G1 Wreck-Gar and Nancy.
  • Michelle is friends with Cody Burns and Blythe Baxter.
  • The Functionalists from the IDW G1 comics were mentioned. They ruled Cybertron after they overthrew the Quintessons, but before Cybertron's Golden Age.
  • A FIMFiction blog post from the author confirmed that M.A.S.K. is also in-continuity; they were "adopted" by G.I. Joe in 2008 when they released a figure of Matt Trakker (as "Specialist Trakker").
  • Verity Carlo and Hunter O'Nion, human allies from the IDW G1 comics, appear as EDC soldiers.
  • In the omake thread, amongst other events, T-AI now lives at the Golden Oak Library (here she's the "daughter program" of Synergy and Teletraan-1), and Unit:E has been established by the EDC with a variety of characters — including Action Man, Rom the Spaceknight, a new M.A.S.K. led by Scott Trakker, William Fowler, the Centurions (now EDC Earth Corps members, with a gender flipped Max and Ace), and Elise Pearson as agents.
  • Fluffle Puff also exists in the omake thread with her supporting cast (the Reformed, but Not Tamed Chrysalis, her Eldritch Abomination "big sis" Marksaline, and Dan), though they aren't part of the "main" Hasbroverse canon.
    • The GoBots are also featured. But in this universe, they're Cybertronians, meaning they're completely robotic as opposed to them being cyborgs with organic brains. The show's Big Bad Cy-Kill becomes Megatron/Galvatron's Superior Successor.
  • Ponyland was once ruled by Queen Majesty who, while was part of the G1 toyline, only appeared in the UK comics.
  • Power Rangers and RWBY have been integrated into the omake threads (though not the "mainline" Hasbroverse), the former by virtue of their being owned by Hasbro now.
• Mr. Smith: One recurring Secret Service agent is named Smith, and he's aware of the irony.
• Named by the Adaptation: This omake revealed that Sparkplug's wife's name was Mary.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: In one of the Side Stories, President Abernathy is worried the State Department might have one replace Megan as a representative, since everypony in Equestria reveres Megan and will be displeased if she's pushed aside.
• One World Order: The omake thread mentions the Earth Republic.
• Pocket Dimension: Jack Harkness, using the TARDIS sensors, confirms that Equestria and its star system exist in a small pocket world.
• Precision F-Strike: Fluttershy, of all ponies, drops a handful of Feathers when she's really at the end of her patience.
• This Is Reality: In "Shape Up And Slaughter Out," Pinkie stops, informs Sgt. Slaughter that she's going to do one of her typical "Fire a lot of confetti everywhere," maneuvers, and asks him if that's okay. Startling a veteran with explosions isn't a great idea.
• Retired Monster: Cobra Commander — or "Joe Broca" — and the few underlings who stayed loyal to him after the Day of the Broken Fang have since moved to Ponyville and opened a pizza place ("Sidewinder's Pizza"). They're frequently witness to the bizarre antics of most everyone else in town.
  • The Misfits have also moved to Ponyville and have a morning radio show.
• Rock Beats Laser: In Bargains and Dragons, Bobby's EDC laser pistol doesn't do anything to an angry dragon, but his magical club chases it off in just a few hits.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Wheeljack and Windcharger survived the Battle of Autobot City.
  • Shockwave. Word of God says he was killed when Unicron attacked Cybertron in The Transformers: The Movie, but his death was left ambiguous in the finished film anyway.
• Tangled Family Tree: We have Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter from the original episodes of Doctor Who, meet Dinky and Sparkler. In the Hasbroverse, Dinky and Sparkler are the daughters of The Doctor. This means that Dinky and Sparkler are Susan's step-aunts.
• Time Abyss: Celestia and Luna have seen all of Equestrian history, watching the Tribes come together and being raised in part by Megan. But even they are dwarfed by Optimus Prime, who, upon first meeting Celestia and Luna in "Picnic By The Lake", revealed himself to be nine million years old.
  • Mei Long the Wise told Danielle in "The History of the Dragon Clans", that King Draco ruled for "ten times ten thousand years", or a hundred thousand years.

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